• Center for Childhood Cancer Research

    The Center for Childhood Cancer Research was established in 2007 as a new Center of Emphasis at the CHOP Research Institute and represents a highly integrated basic, translational and clinical research environment dedicated to eradicating the pain and suffering caused by cancer in children.

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  • 3rd Annual Anna Meadows Lecture

    Featured Smita Bhatia, M.D., M.P.H.


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  • Spring 2012 Oncology Seminar Series

    Next Seminar: May 22nd, 2012
    Featuring Donald "Will" Parsons, MD, PhD
    Pediatric Cancer Genome Sequencing: From the Lab to the Clinic


    All seminars are held in the Colket Translational Research Building Room 1200B at 4pm

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  • Basic Biology Offers Clues to Better Treatments

    By studying tumor biology at the molecular level, researchers are gaining a deeper understanding of drug resistance — and how to avoid it by designing pediatric cancer treatments tailored to specific mutations in a child’s DNA. In a fruitful collaboration, pediatric oncologists and biochemists are targeting neuroblastoma, an often-deadly childhood cancer of the peripheral nervous system.

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  • Pediatric Cancer Summit 2011

    The Pediatric Cancer Summit at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia gave childhood cancer advocacy and community fundraising groups and members of the media the opportunity to listen to five of CHOP’s scientific experts discuss their work.


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Highlighted Research

Basic Biology Offers Clues to Better Treatments

Read more about how studying tumor biology at the molecular level is helping researchers gain a deeper understanding of drug resistance — and how to avoid it by designing pediatric cancer treatments tailored to specific mutations in a child’s DNA.

 


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