Fellowship Training Program in Pediatric Endocrinology
Research Experience
Clinical Research Opportunities
- Genotype phenotype correlation
- Adrenal related gonadal dysfunction
- Psychosexual standards for gender disorders
- Ethnic-specific prevalence of endocrine genetic disorders
- Preconception and prenatal counseling for endocrine genetic disorders
- Therapeutic approaches to non GH deficient growth failure
- Genetics and mechanisms of gestational growth restriction
- Initiators of adrenarche
- Genetics of low renin hypertension
- Salt and water balance in mineralocorticoid excess, deficiency and unresponsiveness
- Apparent mineralocorticoid excess
- Genetic hyperaldosteronism
- Pediatric bone mineral metabolism
- Neonatal thyroid disease
- Growth hormone-immune interactions
- Type 1 diabetes
- New therapies
- Prediction models
- Prevention
- Transplantation
- Type 2 diabetes
- Prevalence
- New therapies
- Prevention
- Obesity
- Etiology
- Complications
- Prevention
Clinical Trials
- Growth hormone
- Aromatase inhibitors
- IGF-1
- Metformin and other insulin sensitizers
- Novel protein hormone delivery systems
- Transdermal sex steroid therapy in adolescence
- Growth hormone registries
Laboratory Research Opportunities
- Molecular genetics, mutational analysis, gene sequencing, and gene expression
- Biotechnology of steroid analysis
- Transcription factors
- Gene therapy techniques
- Mouse models of rare genetic mutations
- Immunology and prevention of diabetes
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