Agrawal Laboratory Research
The Agrawal Laboratory is part of the Division of Newborn Medicine and affiliated with Division of Genetics and Genomics and the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) and Harvard Medical School. Its main goal is to rapidly decipher the disease-associated genes, and find appropriate treatments for various orphan diseases. Dr. Agrawal also directs the Neonatal Genomics Program at Boston Children's Hospital with the goals of rapid diagnosis of genetic diseases in NICU babies, gene discovery, role of genomic sequencing as a newborn screening tool, therapeutic approaches based on genetic diagnosis, and genetic causes of neonatal death. Dr. Agrawal is also the Medical Director of Manton Center’s Gene Discovery Core wherein patients with unexplained diseases are enrolled with detailed phenotypic information, storage of bodily samples including blood and other discarded tissues, sequenced, and analyzed. Dr. Agrawal is also an investigator with the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, NIH and an associate member of the Broad Institute at MIT & Harvard.