Professor David Rowitch leads major study supporting babies after intensive care
A new Cambridge-led research project, BLOOMS (Babies’ Longitudinal Outcomes, Omics and Milestones Study), aims to identify babies at greatest risk of struggling with school readiness after time in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and find ways to support them early in life. The study will recruit 1,000 NICU infants across the East of England, using clinical data and advanced genomic techniques to predict which children might need extra help before they start school.
³ÉÈ˶¶Òõ Fellow, Professor David Rowitch, Professor of Paediatrics at Cambridge and Deputy Director of Research at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s in Los Angeles, is Principal Investigator of BLOOMS. He highlights the importance of early intervention, saying the project seeks to flag children for targeted support during a window when interventions are most effective rather than waiting until age five.
BLOOMS is funded by the Wellcome Trust and is a flagship project of the new Cambridge Children's Hospital and Cambridge Children’s Research.
