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Clinical Services (Surgery):
Surgery Research
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
Laboratory for Transplantation
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
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