The Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health at Imperial currently comprises nine core research themes, which include researchers and clinicians from across Imperial College London and West London, and four cross-cutting research themes which underpin the Centre's research interests and encapsulate many of its large-scale, long-term ambitions.

Core research themes

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Allergy

Research within the Allergy theme focuses upon the origins and natural history of allergic diseases and asthma across the life-course, with an emphasis on prevention and translation for patient benefit.

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Global Health

The Global Health theme within the Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health seeks to bring together academics within the Faculty who are interested in understanding and improving the health of children in low-resource settings.

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Infection

The Infection theme brings together world-leading research teams focused on improving diagnosis, treatment and prevention of globally important severe and life-threatening infections in children.

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Neonatal Medicine

The focus of the Neonatal Medicine theme is the newborn baby. The team also has a major interest in neonatal nutritional support and the later life impact of preterm birth.

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Neuroscience

The Neuroscience theme within the Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health seeks to bring together a group of pre-clinical and clinical researchers, alongside bioinformaticians, physicists, engineers and health policy researchers for understanding, preventing and treating brain injury.

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Public Health

The Public Health theme seeks to bring together clinicians, researchers, scientists, policy-makers and other stakeholders interested in improving our understanding of population child health.

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Respiratory Disease

The Respiratory Medicine theme is translational, ranging from pre-clinical, experimental models, to interventional clinical trials of novel medicines. The overall vision is to improve respiratory health for children and young people of all ages and minimise any detrimental long-term impact on adult lung health.

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Origins of Child Health & Disease

The focus of the Origins of Child Health & Disease theme is on understanding the earliest stages of development and how they impact child health, and beyond. We combine fundamental discovery science in developmental and stem cell biology, reproduction, genetics and epigenetics with more translational approaches in clinical genetics, obstetrics, fetal-maternal medicine, perinatology and paediatrics.

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Child & Adolescent Mental Health

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health theme focusses on several topic areas relevant to child and adolescent mental health. Theme members work closely with colleagues in the School of Public Health, Paediatrics and Child Health and the Faculty of Engineering.

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Cross-cutting research themes

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Integrated Care

The mission of the Integrated Care cross-cutting theme is to implement and evaluate whole system change that improves the way children’s care is commissioned, delivered and experienced locally, nationally and internationally.

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Acute Care

Members of the Acute Care theme are currently working on a number of projects to improve the quality of care for critically ill children and young people.

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Imaging

The mission of this cross-cutting theme is to educate and inform basic researchers and clinicians about current and new imaging modalities and how these platforms can be harnessed for research and diagnostic purposes.

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Genomics, Personalised Med, Platform Science & Bioinformatics

Genomics, Personalised Medicine, Platform Science and Bioinformatics is one of the Centre's cross-cutting themes.

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Immunology

Immunology is a cross-cutting research theme within the Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health.