Wake Up With Research – Bridging Gaps in Pediatric Health: From Neurodevelopment to Immune Response

Join us for November’s Wake Up With Research seminar, featuring WSU researchers and collaborators from Seattle Children’s Research Institute presenting innovative approaches to pediatric health.

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Presentations include:

Connecting childhood obesity to asthma: Investigating the impact of leptin on airway epithelial cell differentiation and viral immune response

• Erica Crespi, PhD, and Kourtnie Whitfield, PhD, WSU School of Biological Sciences
• Jason Debley, MD, MPH, and Weston Powell, MD, PhD, Center for Respiratory Biology and Therapeutics

Disparities in neurodevelopmental follow-up of high-risk infants in rural communities

• Eka, Burduli, PhD, Dept. of Community and Behavioral Health, WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
• Brent Collett, SCRI, Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development

Researchers at Washington State University are discovering new solutions to some of today’s most challenging health issues, including addiction, autism, cancer, chronic illness, rural health, neurological disease, sleep, and much more. WSU Spokane’s Wake Up With Research series gives you a chance to hear directly from experts and scientists as they share their discoveries that help untangle complex problems to enrich our health and quality of life.