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Research news highlights the value of serum cytokine panels in disease management and preclinical work to develop a mRNA vaccine to treat and prevent C. diff.

The Pilot Grant Program supports CHOP researchers in launching research studies on clinical effectiveness and policy-oriented health services.

The Health Equity Research Methods Initiative opened to advance health equity research and translation across CHOP.

CHOP researchers study the effect of high-stress neighborhoods on mental health and the implications of improved rare disease diagnosis.

Our research news roundup highlights newly approved gene therapies, insights into common genetic epilepsy disorders, and head injury prevention for young athletes.

Today, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Violence Prevention (CVP) marks a major milestone -- 10 years of unified programming and research focused on reducing exposure to and impact of violence on youth and their families.

Joel Fein, MD, MPH, and Stephen Leff, PhD, co-directors of the Center for Violence Prevention at CHOP, reflect on a decade of research and programming, in this Cornerstone Q&A.

In part two of Where Discovery Leads, a multimedia story telling project, learn about CHOP physicians and researchers and their evidence-based activism for helping to find solutions to gun violence.

Take a multimedia look at our scientific research aimed at addressing gun violence and prevention. This is part one of two.

In this news roundup, we celebrate research tools new and old, from RNA sequencing to gene editing to the best tool of all: collaboration.

A joint research effort compared the diagnosis and recovery for youth with assault- versus sports-related concussions.

In our second installment of a three-part series, more women in STEM share their advice for the next generation.

This week in the news: a pediatric cancer summit, early diagnosis of Leigh Syndrome, quality of life in severe epilepsy, and more.

A new grant is allowing researchers to study a program educating teachers to detect, prevent, and respond to bullying in the classroom.

CHOP study is first to show important disparities between concussions sustained from assaults compared with sports-related injuries.

The CRC RE@CH Awards celebrated the professionals whose exceptional work contributes to important research at CHOP.

ACTS recognizes Flaura Winston, MD, PhD, for translating her research into effective public policy.

This week’s In the News features firearms research, stillbirths during COVID, donations to the Friedreich’s Ataxia Center of Excellence, and postdocs highlighted for diversity.

Concussion study reveals video confirmation is critical to the processing of head impact sensor data. This and more In the News.

Our second installment of Women in STEM features more scientists leading fields historically underrepresented by women.

CHOP researchers find children particularly vulnerable as most mass shootings happening more than 10 miles from a pediatric trauma center.

An ED physician partners with community groups to develop the STOP IPV program for primary care clinics.

Diversity fellow Rui Fu, PhD, explores the implications of diverse contexts for children’s and teens’ social and psychological development.

Through the Friend to Friend Program, researchers will coach counselors, teachers, and students on navigating relational aggression.

Seven women in science at CHOP share what drives them and the challenges that made them who they are today.