Dr. Amanda Staiano, Co-Principal Investigator from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, has successfully secured a $13 million, five-year NIH renewal grant for the Louisiana’s Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, or ECHO program. Dr. Staiano is a past LA CaTS Roadmap Scholar and currently serves as a Co-Director for the LA CaTS Professional Development Core.
Louisiana’s ECHO program, founded in 2016, unites researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Ochsner Health System, Tulane University, and LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans with leading pediatric clinicians at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital in New Orleans. This collaboration brings together research capabilities and two free-standing children’s hospitals in the state, with a third under construction.
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Staiano and all the researchers involved. We look forward to continued collaboration and facilitation of the multi-center research trials, ensuring that Louisiana children have access to these trials and their families receive the findings.
See the full articles here:
- Patch
- Pennington News
https://www.pbrc.edu/news/media/2025/echo-funding-renewal.aspx