The National Institutes of Health has given Morgantown-based West Virginia University a $1.8 million grant, which the institution will use to build a pediatric clinical trials network across West Virginia.
WVU will partner with hospitals, medical practices, pediatric health programs and others across the state to build network. The network will also draw on existing partnerships, including the CARDIAC Project that offers cardiovascular risk education and intervention to children aged 15 years and younger across the state.
"At WVU Medicine Children's, we currently offer more than 80 clinical trials to children with a variety of illnesses, including cancer, cystic fibrosis, and others," said J. Philip Saul, MD, a WVU pediatric cardiologist and executive vice president of WVU Medicine Children's in Morgantown. "This funding will not only allow us to spread that access out across the state, but also expand the variety of clinical trials that we offer."
The grant is a part of the $157 million Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes program, a package of pediatric health research initiatives