Surgery

Research and innovation

The Department of Surgery maintains a major commitment to pediatric surgical research and is one of the largest research departments at Children's Hospital, Boston. Our department is host to world-renowned laboratories involved in angiogenesis research and tissue engineering. Our extensive research initiatives are both laboratory- and clinically-based, providing research training opportunities to a large number of students and fellows.

The following is a list of some of the research that is ongoing in the Department of Surgery:

• Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Oncology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Fetal Intervention/ Biology
• Fetal intervention/biology
• Fetal tissue engineering; stem-cell bsed therapies; fetal therapy
• Ingber Laboratory
• Klagsbrun Laboratory
• Lung Growth
• Esophageal Atresia Treatment
• The prevention and treatment of parenteral and enteral nutrition induced liver injury, to study the role of angiogenesis in organ regeneration, and the prevention of surgical adhesions.  
• Clinical outcomes and Quality of Life Assessment in Pediatric Surgery
• Prostate cancer
• Surgical Nutrition and Metabolism
• Transplantation and Short Bowel Syndrome
• Trauma care
• Vascular tumors and malformations
• Zetter Laboratory
• Strategies to Improve Safety & Quality in the Surgical Care of Children