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Research center to open in Dallas, Texas.
2003 NOV 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new research center at a university hospital will be the first in the U.S. dedicated solely to preventing and seeking cures for birth defects.
The center, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, was created with $1 million from the March of Dimes and $2 million in private donations.
It will be led by Dr. Deepak Srivastava, a pediatric cardiologist, and Carole Mendelson, a professor of biochemistry, obstetrics and gynecology, said March of Dimes and school officials.
"We see these children, we treat them, we do the best we can, but we have very little understanding of why they actually got a birth defect," Srivastava said.
Srivastava's research on birth defects as well as a longstanding relationship between the March of Dimes and the university weighed heavily in the decision to put the center in Dallas, said Jennifer Howse, March of Dimes president.
The university's medical campus is an ideal location for the center because of its related research in children's cancer, developmental biology, and reproductive biology, university President Kern Wildenthal said at reception for dignitaries and ...
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