Research Program on Pediatric Dysphagia

This Program Project Grant (P01) funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health will study the pathology, developmental origins and prevention of pediatric dysphagia, i.e. a chronic difficulty with feeding and swallowing in newborns, infants and children.

This cross-disciplinary research program includes a Microscopic Imaging and Analysis Core that supports multiple component projects.

Participating investigators are affiliated with the GWNIC, GW's School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Children’s National Health System.