Grant Title: UNM Pediatric Clinical Trials Sites
Principal Investigators: Hengameh Raissy, PharmD and Alberta Kong, MD, MPH
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For more information about active trials, contact us at 505-925-KIDS or email HSC-UNMPCTS@salud.unm.edu.
The University of New Mexico (UNM) is one of 17 clinical sites in the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (ISPCTN). ISPCTN is one of the components of Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program, a national seven-year research initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health. ECHO aims to determine what factors give children the highest probability of achieving the best health outcomes over their lifetimes. ECHO uses the existing cohorts totaling about 50,000 children from racially, socioeconomically and geographically diverse backgrounds in addition to the IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network for supporting intervention studies of promising approaches among rural and underserved children.
ISPCTN was created to study any disease or condition relevant to the pediatric population, although priority is given to the four focus areas of the ECHO Program.
ECHO research works with diverse populations of children across the country and focuses on:
The 18 clinical sites that provide medically underserved and rural populations with access to state-of-the-art clinical trials, apply findings from relevant pediatric cohort studies to children in IDeA state locations, and build pediatric research capacity at a national level include:
Dedicated Faculty
Raissy, Hengameh H, Principle Investigator
Kong, Alberta, Principle Investigator
Maxwell, Jessie, Co-investigator
Raschke, Kristin, Co-investigator
This program supports professional development for faculty to conduct pediatric clinical trials by providing mentorship, infrastructure support, and an experienced team to assist with research coordination. Contact PIs for more information.
Funding Agency/Sponsor: National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director
Project/Grant Period: September 2016-2025
Primary Associated Component/Center: UNM-HSC Office of Research, Clinical & Translational Science Center and Department of Pediatrics
Research reported in this webpage was supported by the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health under award number UG1OD024947. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.