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Children’s National Doctors Discuss Research in Mice with NPR January 23, 2014

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Children’s National Health System’s Vittorio Gallo, PhD, and Joseph Scafidi, DO, of the Children's Research Institute, were featured on NPR discussing their research in newborn mice, which found that a naturally occurring substance called epidermal growth factor appears to reverse a type of brain damage that’s common in very premature infants.

The research was originally reported in the journal Nature.

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