Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has received a four-year, $2.8 million federal grant to participate in a national study aimed at preventing asthma in inner-city children.
The asthma research is being done as part of an 11-site group called the Inner City Asthma Consortium, which was formed in 2002 by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Being part of a national consortium will allow Cincinnati Children’s to participate in the large-scale clinical studies needed to develop better ways to diagnose, treat and manage asthma, according to a statement from the hospital.
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“It’s a huge step for Cincinnati Children’s to be involved in a network like this,” said Dr. Gurjit Khurana Hershey, director of the hospital’s division of asthma research. “We really have an opportunity to impact the way we manage asthma on a national scale.”
Lines of research the consortium is pursuing include comparing different treatment regimens, searching for biomarkers to predict asthma severity and detailing the environmental factors that play key roles in inner-city asthma.
In the U.S., about 12 percent of children have asthma, with two-thirds of those experiencing at least one asthma attack in the past year, according to the statement.
