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Sick
Kids: The Cause
The Hospital for Sick Children, affectionately called Sick Kids,
is one of the largest paediatric academic health science centres
in the world, with an international reputation for excellence
in health care, research, and teaching.
Recently, Sick Kids celebrated 15 years of clinical
and research advances in heart transplantation. Since the
Sick Kids Cardiac Transplant Program began in 1990, over 155
heart transplants have been performed at the hospital, establishing
Sick Kids as one of the largest paediatric heart transplant
centres in North America.
Sick Kids also houses The Research Institute,
a world-class scientific research centre performing basic
and clinical research leading to the improved understanding,
prevention, treatment and care of children's diseases.
For over 50 years the Sick Kids Research Institute
has made discoveries that have improved the quality of children’s
lives. Here are some research milestones that were made possible
by community support and events like Chicks That Kick.
Recent Research Advances:
A scientific team led by Dr. Stephen Scherer
compiled the complete DNA sequence of human chromosome 7 and
decoded nearly all of the genes on this medically important
portion of the human genome. The research involved an international
collaboration of 90 scientists from 10 countries.
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (Dr. Michael
Salter) and the National Institute of Health Sciences in Japan
identified a molecule that causes neuropathic pain, a sharp
and chronic pain associated with nerve injury and diseases
affecting the nervous system. This finding may lead to a new
and previously unknown way of treating chronic pain.
An international research team led by Drs. Berge Minassian
and Stephen Scherer of Sick Kids identified a second gene
responsible for the most severe form of teenage-onset epilepsy,
known as Lafora disease.
Dr. Brenda Banwell and colleagues at Sick Kids have shown
an association between paediatric multiple sclerosis (MS)
and the Epstein-Barr virus, indicating that exposure to the
virus at a certain time in childhood may be an important environmental
trigger for the development of MS.
A research team at Sick Kids led by Dr.
Peter Dirks identified a cancer stem cell in both malignant
and benign brain tumours. This discovery may change how brain
tumours are studied and how this deadly condition is treated
in the future.
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