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The Wyss Foundation Provides $5 Million in Funding for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Wyss/Campbell Center for Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome
Published on Feb 22, 2024 in Press Releases
CHOP announces a gift of $5 million from the Wyss Foundation to support innovations that improve the lives of patients with thoracic insufficiency syndrome.
CHOP Researchers Successfully Employ New Method for Treating Pediatric Patients with Common Heart Valve Disease
Published on Feb 22, 2024 in Press Releases
This new method, typically used in adult patients, may spare patients from having to undergo open heart surgery.
Web-Based Resource Provides Precise Classification of Dual Genome Variants of Primary Mitochondrial Disease
Published on Feb 13, 2024 in Press Releases
Quick-Mitome, developed by an international consortium of mitochondrial disease specialists, is available for non-commercial, non-clinical research.
Madeline Bell, President and CEO of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Wins CEO of the Year Award from Press Ganey
Published on Feb 7, 2024 in Press Releases
This recognition from Press Ganey, a company that helps healthcare providers and health plans transform the Human Experience, highlights Bell's unwavering commitment to providing high-quality care to children and families.
CHOP Experts Showcase Frontier Program at Arab Health Exhibition
Published on Jan 29, 2024 in Press Releases
Showcasing its longstanding partnership with the United Arab Emirates Health Services, CHOP will exhibit thought-leading clinical research in the EHS booth at the Arab Health 2024 Exhibition and Congress in Dubai.
The PUSH Study: Patterns of Polysubstance Use and Its Association with Sexual Partnership Factors
Published on Jan 29, 2024 in Press Releases
Researchers from CHOP and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine studied how high levels of substance and polysubstance use are associated with sexual practices, and partner characteristics that can reinforce risk for HIV acquisition or transmission among Black and Latinx sexual youth as well as gender minority youth.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Performs First in U.S. Gene Therapy Procedure to Treat Genetic Hearing Loss
Published on Jan 23, 2024 in Press Releases
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced the initial results of an experimental gene therapy treatment of a patient with hereditary hearing loss in the United States. Findings to date indicate that the treatment was successful.
CHOP's John M. Maris MD, and Penn Medicine's E. John Wherry Named 2024 Fellows of the AACR Academy
Published on Jan 19, 2024 in Press Releases
Distinguished pediatric oncologist John M. Maris, MD, has been named a member of the 2024 class of fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy. Each year, the AACR Academy recognizes and honors esteemed scientists whose major contributions have propelled significant innovation and progress against cancer.
American Society for Clinical Investigation Elects Six New Members From CHOP, Penn
Published on Jan 19, 2024 in Press Releases
Representing excellence across the breadth of academic medicine, the physician-scientists are among 100 active members across 50 institutions elected in 2024.
CHOP Hematologist Honored by American Society of Hematology for Leadership in Promoting Diversity
Published on Dec 22, 2023 in Press Releases
Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH, received the award at the society’s annual meeting.