Children’s Mercy gains research grant

The Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute awarded a $150,000 grant to Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics to support the development of leadership and operational activities of the Institute for Pediatric Innovation’s Pediatric Drug Reformulation Program.

The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation awarded the grant. The Pediatric Drug Reformulation program, which Children’s Mercy leads, seeks to meet a significant need in the treatment of children due to the current lack of commercially available pediatric doses and forms of commonly used drugs. The program reformulates and develops existing medications to provide treatments that are in optimal forms and strengths for safe and effective use in infants, children and teens.

A portion of this grant will fund a position for the programs director, Pat McCloskey, Ph.D. McCloskey comes to Children’s Mercy with pharmaceutical experience.

“At Children’s Mercy, we have always been committed to the fact that children have unique medical and developmental needs, and nowhere is that more important than in creating medications and dosage forms that are safe and appropriate for children of all ages and sizes,” said Randall O’Donnell, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics.

“Children’s Mercy is already nationally recognized for our leadership in this area, and this generous grant from KCALSI allows us to take the program to an even higher level that will benefit all children by providing drug reformulations specifically tailored for pediatric patients,” O’Donnell said.

This is the seventh grant Children’s Mercy has received from Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute since the institute was founded in 2000.

“Children’s Mercy Hospital and the Institute for Pediatric Innovation provide unique capabilities and fulfill an important need in the field of pediatric medicine,” said Daniel Getman, president of the Life Sciences Institute. “This grant is a great example of a private donor providing funds which will make a difference in children’s lives.”

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