The Colleen Giblin Research Laboratories at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center were opened in 1990, and conduct research in children’s neurological and cancer-related diseases. The laboratories are under the direction of Darryl DeVivo M.D., the Director of Pediatric Neurology, and Sidney Carter Professor of Neurology and Professor of Pediatrics.

Colleen Giblin Foundation Board Member Stephanie Weber, Kathie Lee Gifford, Board President Michelle Oates, Executive Director Meg Minassian

The support for the Colleen Giblin Laboratories by the Colleen Giblin Foundation has allowed the Division of Pediatric Neurology at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to develop an impressive research initiative. The foundation provides the funds that are necessary to maintain the laboratory infrastructure, and to preserve and foster the focus on clinical and basic research related to human diseases that affect the developing nervous system. This support has provided the director, Dr. Darryl DeVivo, with funds that are important to seed postdoctoral fellows and young investigators, and to supplement existing support for more senior investigators. Approximately 20 investigators have benefited from the support of the Foundation since 1986. We now have a nucleus of senior investigators that permit new research initiatives that hopefully will expand our federal and non-federal base of continuing research support.

The profile of research projects is quite broad, and targets some of the more serious neurological conditions of infancy and childhood. The investigators are studying many factors that cause birth defects, brain injury in the new born, brain tumors and radiation oncology, muscular diseases, movement abnormality, epilepsy, genetically transmitted conditions that affect the growing and developing brain, pediatric aids and fetal cocaine