Dr. Gail Besner Receives NIH Grant to Continue Research on Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Infants

Gail Besner, MD, principal investigator in the Center for Perinatal Research at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s has been awarded a 4-year RO1 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue her work which focuses on treating and preventing various forms of intestinal injury in infants.  Dr. Besner’s work includes research into neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), which is the most common and most serious gastrointestinal disorder among hospitalized preterm infants.   NEC is the leading cause of surgical death in these infants. 

The Research Project grant (RO1) is the original and historically oldest National Institutes of Health grant program. For more information, see the full Nationwide Children's release.