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The Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Children's Hospital Boston, directed by Dr. Richard Grand, is an integrated, multidisciplinary research, teaching, and care program that aims to address the unique features of childhood-onset inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The Center is comprised of seven core programs: basic research in epithelial cell and molecular biology and the molecular biology of the immune response, clinical research, pharmacology, nutrition, cancer biology and surveillance, outcomes research, and health care policy. The goals of Center activities are to stimulate interactions between investigative units at Children's Hospital currently working in areas relevant to IBD, and to initiate new projects in laboratories not yet studying IBD. In addition to data sessions and conferences already ongoing in the individual laboratories, a twice monthly conference on Wednesday afternoons focuses on discussions of projects, protocols, and plans for the Center, and it provides an opportunity for fellows and staff to participate actively in IBD research. This center is in part supported by core facilities and pilot feasibility funding by the Harvard Digestive Diseases Center at Children's Hospital (PI: Dr. Wayne I. Lencer).
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