Bench To Bassinet Program: Research on Pediatric Heart Problems

The Bench to Bassinet Program is a major effort launched by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to learn more about how the heart develops and why children are born with heart problems. This information will be used to develop new ways to help infants, children, teenagers, and adults born with heart disease.

OUR MISSION: The Bench to Bassinet's mission is to accelerate scientific discovery to clinical practice by fostering collaborations of basic, translational and clinical researchers through a flexible program designed to improve outcomes for individuals with congenital heart disease while supporting the needs of the pediatric heart disease research community.

NEWS:
Children and Clinical Studies
The Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Bench to Bassinet Program, Dr. Gail Pearson, spoke at the 2010 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition on October 4^th about children and clinical studies. Learn more

CHD GENES

The Pediatric Cardiac Genomics Consortium launches its prospective cohort study

Subjects Enrolled: 2,765
Relatives Enrolled: 3,350

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PHN Investigators Receive Awards

The PHN proudly announces that Dr. Caren Goldberg and Dr. Peter Frommelt received Outstanding Research Awards in Pediatric Cardiology at the American Heart Association annual scientific meeting in November. Both presented findings from the Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial.

Dr. Goldberg's presentation was: Interstage Mortality after the Norwood Procedure: Results of the Multi-center Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial.

Dr. Frommelt's presentation was: Does Initial Shunt Type for the Norwood Procedure Impact Echocardiographic Measures of Cardiac Size and Function During Infancy? The Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial.

The Pediatic Heart Network Starts a New Cycle

On Sept. 1, 2011, NHLBI provided five more years of funding to nine Pediatric Heart Network (PHN) clinical sites and a coordinating center to conduct research studies in children and young adults with congenital heart disease. Learn more about the PHN at http://www.pediatricheartnetwork.org/ and more about children in research at http://www.childrenandclinicalstudies.nhlbi.nih.gov.