WellChild Research Projects

Research has always been at the heart of the work WellChild does to help seriously ill children and their families in Great Britain. Successful medical research can help many children now and in the future to come. We have an impressive track record for investment over the years but there is so much more to be done - and at WellChild we are determined to contribute all we can.

Giving the right start - projects which help to improve the care of premature babies and infants

Project	Researcher	WellChild funding
Optimisation of Fetal Diffusion Tensor MR imaging to assess tissue microstructure and connectivity in the developing brain	Professor Mary Rutherford, Professor in Perinatal Imaging, Imperial College, London	£50,000 (jointly funded project with Action Medical Research)
Sudden unexpected early postnatal collapse	Dr Julie-Clare Becher, Consultant Neonatologist, Dept of Neonatology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh	£8900

 

Children's Health Matters - exploring the risks to children's health eg. infections, acquired illnesses

Project	Researcher	WellChild funding
Screening for asymptomatic Cryptosporidium carriage in susceptible children	Dr Angharad Davies, School of Medicine, University of Wales	£69,581.89
Adolescent eating disorders: a longitudinal study of course and preventable risk factors	Dr Nadia Micali, Clinical lecturer, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London	£74,000
National surveillance of sexually transmitted infections in children under 13 years of age presenting to secondary care	Dr Richard Reading, Consultant paediatrician and honorary reader in child health, Jenny Lind Department, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital	£46,800
Rapid Development of Novel Iron Materials to Address Childhood Iron Deficiency Anaemia	Dr Jonathon Powell, MRC Collaborative Centre for Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge	£41,617 (jointly funded project with Action Medical Research)

New Innovations in Children's Health - projects that impacton genetic, disabling and long terms conditions, development of new therapies and approaches to management, new technologies etc.

Project	Researcher	WellChild funding
Improving Core Control of Children with Cerebral Palsy using Virtual Reality Games	Dr Gabor Barton, Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Henry Cotton Campus, Liverpool, L3 2ET	£102,917
The role of the ER Stress in the development of diabetes in Wolfram syndrome	Professor Tim Barrett, Diabetes Unit, Birmingham Children’s Hospital	£119,263

 

Care in Action - measuring the impact of care or services provided to families of young children and young people with serious illness or long term complex health conditions.

Project	Researcher	WellChild funding
WellChild Nursing Research Fellowship in Acute Pain	Professor Linda Franck and Nina Power, WellChild Pain Research Centre, Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital	£183,500

 

Capital Projects

  

Liver Cell Therapy Unit (King's College London)

Professor Anil Dhawan, Kings College London

WellChild Research Centre (Birmingham)

Professor Ian Booth, Birmingham Children’s Hospital

 

Endowed Posts

Professor Neil Dalton

Professor Georgina Vergani

Professor Anne Greenough

 

Archive Projects

MRI Diagnosis in children with Congenital Heart Disease
Dr Reza Razavi and Dr Gerald Greil, Evelina Children’s Hospital

 

 

updated September 2010