Research Projects

  • Spatiotemporal regulation of intestinal gene expression

  • Intestinal stem cell gene therapy and gene transfer

  • Fatty liver disease and obesity in pediatric patients

  • Intestinal bacterial overgrowth in chronically acid-suppressed patients with cystic fibrosis

  • Immunosuppressive drug withdrawal for post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease in pediatric liver transplantation.

  • Oral vancomycin: treatment of primary sclerosing cholangitis in children

  • Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (alteplase) for restoration of function to occluded central venous catheters in pediatric patients

  • Multi-center growth study of term infant formulas supplemented with arachidonic acid and docosahexaenoic acid

  • Pediatric liver transplant outreach model of patient care

  • Animal models of small intestinal transplantation and intestinal adaptation

  • Pathophysiology of enteric viruses in children

  • Creating family-centered care at a children’s hospital

  • Developmental outcome of children with biliary atresia and liver transplantation

  • Integrated web-based nutrition curriculum