Allergy and Immunology: Asthma; exercise-induced bronchial hyper responsiveness; immune mechanisms in middle ear disease.
Endocrinology: Growth and its disorders: hormone secretion and action. Metabolic regulation in childhood: in-vivo insulin action using clamp experiments, stable isotope methodology and indirect calorimetry in health and disease. Diabetes mellitus: etiology and pathogenesis, hypoglycemia and counteregulation and cognitive function complications. Adrenal disorders and sexual differentiation: molecular diagnosis and biochemical profiling.
Gastroenterology: Gastroesophageal reflux, infantile esophagitis.
Gene Therapy: Gene therapy for Gaucher’s disease, genotype analysis in cystic fibrosis.
Hematology/Oncology: Neutropenia; osteosarcoma; sickle cell anemia; acute lymphoblastic leukemia; interleukin-2 in malignancy.
Muscle Development: Assessment of possible new treatments for muscular dystrophy.
Neurodevelopment: Intrathecal baclofen for dystonia in cerebral palsy.
Neurosurgery: Hypothermia in the treatment of severe head injury; adenosine in the development of cerebrovascular failure following severe head injury.
Nutrition: Racial differences in risk for obesity.
Otolaryngology: Child development in relation to early otitis media; effect of otitis media on the balance system.
Urology: Clinical, biomedical, and genetic characterization of individuals with vesicoureteral reflux.
Pharmacology: Pharmacokinetics of anticancer therapy.
Psychiatry: Genetic factors of childhood-onset depression; neurobiology of feeding behavior in bulimia.
Pulmonary Disease: Nontuberculous mycobacteria in cystic fibrosis patients; bone density in cystic fibrosis patients.
Transplantation Medicine: Infectious complications and follow-up of liver transplantation.
