MUSC Children’s Hospital and Darby Children’s Research Institute
MUSC Children's Hospital )
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The MUSC Children's Hospital is dedicated to enhancing the health of children throughout South Carolina and to providing an environment that supports excellence in pediatric patient care, teaching, and research. Children's Hospital offers a full range of age-specific care. It is South Carolina’s largest and most comprehensive pediatric healthcare center, offering the only Level III neonatal intensive care unit in the region. MUSC Children's Hospital consistently earns high rankings from U.S. News & World, American Health Magazine, and Best Doctors of America. Child magazine continues to rank it as one of the top pediatric facilities in the country; in survey results published in the February 2007 issue, MUSC Children’s hospital ranked 28th among all children’s hospitals in the country, and the MUSC Children’s Emergency Department was rated the 9th best pediatric emergency care facility in the U.S. The health system consists of a comprehensive network of primary care physicians, specialists, surgeons, and service providers who provide a variety of services and programs, including the Child Life Program, Community Outreach, Emergency and Transport Services, Pediatric Burn Center, Prenatal Wellness Center, Transplant Programs, and Trident Area SAFE KIDS, as well as specialty care in more two dozen medical, surgical and psychiatric areas.
Darby Children's Research Institute (rev date 10/07)
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The Darby Children's Research Institute (DCRI) opened in February 2005 as the largest and most comprehensive pediatric research facility in the Carolinas. Its mission is to improve the lives of children, their families and communities by conducting high quality children’s research, training superior physicians and scientists, and fostering innovation through the sciences of discovery and application. The 122,000 ft2 7-story building has 150 state-of-the-art laboratory modules providing bench space and core facilities for researchers in 11 multidisciplinary programs, representing many departments and colleges at MUSC. The open lab design and shared research space foster interaction, communication, and collaboration. Enclosed walkways connecting every floor between the DCRI and the adjoining Basic Sciences Building promote intra- and inter-programmatic synergies, along with sharing of high technology resources. The overall goals of the DCRI are to empower talented scientists, promote inclusiveness and collaboration, enable established and new investigators, and increase and diversify funding for pediatric research. The DCRI currently houses basic and translational investigators in cardiobiology, neurosciences, cancer biology, pharmacogenetics, addiction research, pulmonary biology, proteomics, vitamin D metabolism, osteoclast biology, autoimmune and rheumatic diseases, and renal biology.