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Newcastle Neonatal Research Team

We are a multi-disciplinary, world-leading, clinically focused, neonatal research team based in Newcastle, UK with collaborators across the UK, Europe and USA. Our research is built on a legacy (click here) of over 100 years neonatal research in Newcastle in the areas of nutrition, social determinants of health over the life-course, metabolism and infectious disease. Current research focuses on neonatal nutrition in preterm infants, necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), growth, lung function and long-term outcome, as well as exploring parental experiences of baby loss.
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Our studies include large scale collaborative trials of feeding and nutrition, mechanistic studies focusing on the gut microbiome and metabolome, development of gut enteroid models, immune development, motor function, and long-term metabolic outcome using longitudinal cohort studies.

​Team members are based at Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Northumbria University and Newcastle University. Our research programme is coordinated by Janet Berrington and Nick Embleton. You can read about post-graduate (doctoral) student projects here and follow us on twitter here 
@NeoResearch_Net and here @neonatalbiobank ​

Recent research highlights

  • Human Milk Oligosacharides predict Necrotising Enterocolitis (Masi et al. Gut 2020)
  • Early diet in preterm infants and cognition at 10 years of age (Embleton et al. Pediatric Research 2021)
  • Azithromycin for treatment of Chronic Lung Disease of prematurity: randomised clinical trial (Lowe et al. BMJ Open 2020)
  • Parent experiences of enrolling to more than one neonatal trial or study (Richards et al. Archives Disease in Childhood 2020)
  • Economic evaluation of the Speed of Increases in Feed Trial (SIFT) (Tahir et al. Archives Disease in Childhood 2020) 
  • Survey of UK health professionals supporting parents after perinatal twin loss (Rankin et al. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2021)
  • Burden of Disease & risk factors for neonatal mortality in Nigeria and Kenya (Nabwera et al. PlosOne 2021)
  • Maternal breastmilk, infant gut microbiome and the impact on preterm infant health (Granger et al. Acta Pediatrica 2020)
  • Breastfeeding beliefs and experiences of African immigrant mothers  (Odeniyi et al. Maternal & Child Nutrition 2020)
  • Early use of antibiotics and later NEC (Li et al. Journal of Pediatrics 2020)
  • T Cells in Preterm Infants and the Influence of Milk Diet (Sproat et al. Frontiers 2020) 
  • Feeding in Late and Moderately Preterm infants (Flamingo) (Kakaroukas et al. Frontiers 2021)
  • Evidence that informs feeding practices in VLBW infants in sub-Saharan Africa (Akindolire et al. BMJ Open 2020)
  • Classifying abnormal infant movements using deep learning (McCay et al. IEEE 2020)
  • Multinutrient fortification of human milk for preterm infants (Brown et al. Cochrane Database 2020)
  • Acquisition & development of gut microbiota in extremely preterm infants (Young et al. JPGN 2020)
  • Accuracy of antenatal MRI to detect fetal brain anomalies and predict developmental outcomes (Hart et al. Lancet C&A 2020)
Partners

We work closely with parent-led organisations, advocacy groups and charities who provide support and advise on our projects. We are indebted to the hundreds of parents of sick babies who have supported us and joined our studies - without them none of our projects would succeed. We also gratefully acknowledge all the organisations who have provided funding for our projects. Some of these are listed below, but there are many others.
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