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ANNA ANDERSON BERRY: The Child Health Research Institute, or CHRI, was approved in 2017. This is an investment of Children's (Nebraska) with UNMC to bring the best and the most accessible resources and cutting edge tools to our talented investigators. There are over 400 investigator members in the Child Health Research Institute. It's a combination of scientists, labs, IRB, pediatric research coordinators, everything that goes into making research happen on all different fronts together to work for kids. 

We have incredible resources, from start to finish for project initiation, through project completion and publication. CHRI can help with project design. It can help with grant writing and submission. Our statistician can help with our analysis. Our scientific writer can help with grant preparation, manuscript preparation, and abstract submission. And then our pre- and post-awards in our pediatric research office can help with technical grant submission. And once that grant is funded, we can help get it set up and get going on your work. 

We have over 300 trials that we're currently supporting. We have a group of clinical coordinators who are nurses and professionals that support our clinical trials. And they are working non-stop to enroll kids into important trials that can help improve health care for children. With CHRI, we have six areas of emphasis. Pediatric cancer, pediatric cardiology, early life experiences, chronic diseases, and population health and global health. 

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Omaha is the catalyst for bringing together individuals from across the country to change and impact care. CHRI is excited to host multiple events throughout the year that bring researchers together. Our premier event is our CHRI Annual Scientific Summit. And that's where we highlight the best science that our investigators are bringing forward. 

In addition, we have our pediatric research forum in May. And that highlights our trainees' research. We have pediatric academic workshops twice yearly. And finally, we have our PCRG, or Pediatric Cancer Research Group, symposium. And that highlights our state-of-the-art cancer research, with an emphasis on how the state of Nebraska intersects with our pediatric cancer work. 

Pediatric research is critical because it has been underfunded and under-supported for decades. And so our researchers are working night and day, literally, to try to modify treatments, improve treatments, decrease side effects with improving outcomes for this relatively neglected pediatric population. 

The appetite for research comes from our patients. All you have to do is go to a single bedside, one bedside, and you'll see that we can do better and we have to do better. The kids we're taken care of today can't wait for tomorrow's innovations. We have to do it now. 

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