As the recipient of a Novel Research Grant from the Lupus Research Alliance, Andrea Knight, MD, a physician in the division of Rheumatology, is working to better understand why children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) experience mental health problems.
"Bold" is perhaps the best word to describe this week's roundup of Research Institute news, as Children's Hospital of Philadelphia nurses and investigators alike made headlines for their experimental work in pediatric CAR T-cell therapy: a cancer-fighting immunotherapy treatment that aims to re-engineer a patient's own T cells to detect and destroy tumor cells.
