Shriners Hospital

Shriners Hospital for Children - Cincinnati Research Program

The Research Program at the Cincinnati Shriners Burns Hospital (Richard J. Kagan, M.D., Director of Research) has made significant improvements to standards of care for burn patients in the areas of wound healing, scarring, infection, immunology, metabolism and nutrition. The program comprises five laboratories furnished with state-of-the-art equipment and staffed by researchers with national and international reputations, as well as three funded Special Shared Facilities in Clinical Research, Microscopy & Imaging, and Flow Cytometry. These facilities are used by all the investigators and collaborators affiliated with Shriners Hospitals for Children, and results are used for pilot studies as well as funded research projects. Data collected from the use of these facilities are used to develop and improve skin substitutes, determine the factors responsible for optimal wound healing and scarring, locate the mechanisms responsible for lung injury and inflammation, discover the mechanisms and methods to modulate the immune response following thermal injury, prevent or reduce the occurrence of muscle breakdown following burn injury, and improve the nutritional supplementation of burn patients. The extraordinary results already obtained from these research efforts are made possible by a scientific staff of 34 faculty including Ph.D.'s and surgeon-scientists in the Department of Surgery.

Research Scientists

George F. Babcock, Ph.D.

Steven T. Boyce, Ph.D.

Ambikaipakan Balasubramaniam, Ph.D.

Charles C. Caldwell, Ph.D.

William T. Chance, Ph.D.

Alice N. Neely, Ph.D.

Cora K. Ogle, Ph.D.

Dorothy M. Supp, Ph.D.