Director:
Rosemarie M. Booze, PhD,
Professor and Bicentennial Endowed Chair of Behavioral Neuroscience
University of South Carolina


Inception:
2006

Funding:
$12 million
  

The Center for Childhood Therapeutics will develop new approaches to diagnosing and treating childhood neurologic and brain disorders that cannot currently be cured.  If successful, these approaches could potentially be used to treat adult neurologic and brain disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s diseases.

The endowed chair of Functional Neurochemistry of the Adolescent Brain (USC) will translate basic neuroscience into new pharmaceuticals for safe use in children. A second chair will focus on Translational Research on Neurodevelopmental Brain Dysfunction (MUSC), developing new protocols and drugs to treat neurodevelopmental disorders. A third chair in Translational Research in Children (Greenville Hospital/USC) will evaluate new treatment protocols, drugs, and devices and prepare them for marketing and dissemination.
  

Partners:
The Darby Children's Research Institute at the Medical University of South Carolina

The Donald A. Gardner Family Center for Developing Minds at Greenville Hospital System's Children's Hospital