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Published on Oct 30, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
Researchers will analyze two implementation strategies to increase uptake of supraglottic airways use for infants requiring rescue breaths after birth.
Published on Oct 17, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP ranks among the best children’s hospitals in the nation; researchers honored for contributions to automotive and neonatal medicine.
Published on Oct 15, 2025 in Press Releases
Dr. Burris reflects on her research portfolio and the implications for practice across neonatology and maternal health.
Published on Oct 7, 2025 in Press Releases
CHOP has once again been named one of the Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
Published on Sep 24, 2025 in Press Releases
Researchers suggest that specialized procedure be performed only in high-volume, experienced centers with multidisciplinary teams.
Published on Aug 21, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP researchers identify a respiratory parameter associated with successful aeration during delivery room resuscitation for preterm infants.
Published on Jul 11, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
This edition highlights a study that suggests chronic illness may be on the rise for children in the U.S., a model of care that could improve postpartum health of mothers, and more.
Published on Jul 8, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
A rapid genetic test developed at CHOP identified baby KJ’s rare mutation, setting the stage for a historic medical breakthrough.
Published on Jun 17, 2025 in Press Releases
Partnering with doulas and midwives to support mothers with babies in the NICU improves access to timely, essential health services.
Published on Feb 7, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
Bone marrow breakthrough will help scientists study the effects of disease and treatment on blood cells and more in this research news.
Published on Feb 5, 2025 in Announcements
Join this multidisciplinary conference focused on improving the care and outcomes for infants with severe chronic lung disease.
Published on Jan 24, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
Dr. Stephan Grupp attends Cell and Gene Therapy Forum at the White House, and CHOP Research Institute supports early-career investigators. This and more In The News.
Published on Jan 21, 2025 in Announcements
The Immunology and Infectious Diseases Research Initiative invites you to save the date for their First Annual Scientific Symposium.
Published on Jan 10, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
Dr. Susan Furth is recognized as one of 36 “Chief Innovation Officers to Know” and more in this week’s research news.
Published on Dec 10, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
A Snapshot Science sums up how researchers explored rates of vaccine-strain rotavirus transmission in CHOP’s neonatal intensive care unit.
Published on Sep 12, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP-based teams receive Penn Health-Tech support to bring healthcare innovations to the marketplace.
Published on Jul 19, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
News this week highlights recipients of the Foerderer Grants and CHOP’s designation as a Tier 1 Center of Excellence for telomere biology disorders.
Published on May 21, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP Research celebrated its clinical research staff and their unique contributions at the 11th annual CRC RE@CH Awards on May 7.
Published on May 15, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Many of the great minds at CHOP convened on April 30 and May 1 to share how their research is expanding our understanding of pediatric neuroscience.
Published on Apr 23, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Researchers from CHOP and Penn reveal that the microbiome and immune system play a key role in the non-genetic transfer of phenotypes to offspring.
Published on Apr 12, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
This week, AACR names CHOP physician-scientists as grant recipients, and CIRP researchers publish new findings on driving and mood disorders.
Published on Feb 2, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Six CHOP researchers joined the Society for Pediatric Research, and CVAP presented at the Arab Health Exhibition. This and more in our news roundup.
Published on Nov 24, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
In The News highlights CHOP at the AHA Scientific Sessions, the new AACAP president, a preterm birth study, and new research recognitions.
Published on Oct 27, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s In The News highlights studies on influenza, antibiotic use, and e-scooter accidents.
Published on Oct 17, 2023 in Press Releases
Two CHOP researchers were selected by the health and science news outlet STAT as 2023 Wunderkinds, an award that celebrates the next generation of scientific superstars.
Published on Oct 9, 2023 in Press Releases
Antibiotic use in neonatal intensive care units decreased substantially over the past decade, according to CHOP researchers.
Published on Oct 3, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
With $50 million in NIH funding, the research team will recruit and follow 2,500 pregnant patients and their children for the next seven years.
Published on Sep 15, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP scientists share their expertise in circadian research and SMA treatments. This and more this week’s news.
Published on Aug 25, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP researchers discover a link between circadian cycles and lung repair and regeneration.
Published on Aug 8, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Two CHOP researchers receive the Individual Biomedical Research Award from the Hartwell Foundation, which will fund early-stage, innovative projects.
Published on Jul 27, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
In this Faculty Spotlight, Colin Conine, PhD, shares how receiving the Junior Faculty Award allows him to study how the microbiome and T cells regulate transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.
Published on Jun 21, 2023 in Press Releases
CHOP and Penn researchers have received a $50 million grant from the NIH to study the impact of environmental influences on pregnancy and children’s health.
Published on Jun 9, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
This week In the News, the Division of Neonatology is re-selected as a Neonatal Research Network Center, and researchers develop the first pediatric brain tumor atlas.
Published on May 15, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
This year’s Poster Day and Scientific Symposium featured all manners of bugs, breakthroughs, and big discoveries.
Published on May 12, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Learn about a novel disorder caused by rare genetic variants, the importance of global neonatal outcomes, and more, in this week’s edition of In the News.
Published on May 1, 2023 in Press Releases
Projects address a variety of clinical issues, including pediatric respiratory distress and Respiratory Distress Syndrome, neonatal jaundice, IV infiltration, and surgical hemorrhage.
Published on Apr 3, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Meet Gennadiy Fonar, PhD, the Featured Research Staff Member for Diversity Month
Published on Feb 27, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Dr. Lingappan, a neonatologist at CHOP, studies sex-specific differences in organ systems that could mediate the sex-specific responses of preterm infants.
Published on Jan 20, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s In the News highlights research on MIS-C, an association between serotonin and heart valve disease, a genetic basis for sleep disorders, and neonatal resuscitation guidelines.
Published on Jan 12, 2023 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers led an international group of experts in developing guidelines for neonatal resuscitation research
Published on Jan 6, 2023 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers found that before wide availability of vaccines, newborns were infected with SARS-CoV-2 at variable rates and without apparent short-term effects.
Published on Dec 23, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
This week in the news, we congratulate new award recipients on their research honors.
Published on Dec 21, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
New study findings can inform optimal COVID-19 vaccination strategy during pregnancy.
Published on Dec 20, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
Our December Faculty Spotlight scientist, Christopher Thom, MD, PhD, works at the intersection of genetics, blood biology, and cellular therapeutics.
Published on Nov 11, 2022 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers found that nearly one-third of extremely premature infants develop late-onset sepsis.
Published on Aug 15, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
A Q&A with neonatologist Karen Puopolo MD, PhD, recipient of the Pennsylvania Pediatrician of the Year Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Published on May 5, 2022 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers found neighborhood characteristics were associated with higher rates of SARS-CoV-2 in pregnancy during the prevaccination era of the COVID-19 pandemic
Published on Apr 22, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health takes on environment threats to children in the area’s most vulnerable communities.
Published on Apr 1, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
Learn about earn about a regional research collaboration, prestigious awards, and listen to a special podcast series.
Published on Mar 30, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
In the final installment of our Women in STEM series, six more scientists share their advice for aspiring researchers.
Published on Feb 7, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
New research describes a nanomaterial property that dictates how particles interact with “first-responder” immune cells, neutrophils.
Published on Jan 21, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
Learn about novel findings and new funding from our Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers.
Published on Jan 13, 2022 in Press Releases
Study shows it is safe to withhold antibiotics in infants, including those born preterm, with low-risk delivery characteristics.
Published on Nov 15, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Through a multimodal big data set, researchers across the nation want to better understand what typical variability in brain development looks like.
Published on Oct 15, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s news roundup includes a podcast with the CSO, new studies regarding COVID-19 effects, golf cart injuries, and new NIH funding.
Published on Oct 12, 2021 in Press Releases
Study by CHOP researchers suggests shorter hospital stays for healthy term infants might be safe outside of a pandemic scenario, with implications for health care costs and best practices.
Published on Oct 8, 2021 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers found that a plurality of hospitals delivers fewer than 500 infants per year, and that nearly a fifth of low-volume hospitals are more than 30 miles from another obstetric hospital.
Published on Oct 5, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP researchers identify the bacterial pathogens most responsible for early-onset sepsis in very preterm infants.
Published on Aug 19, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Colin Conine, PhD, a 2021 Pew Scholar, studies small RNAs in sperm to understand how they influence traits of the offspring they produce.
Published on Jun 15, 2021 in Press Releases
Colin Conine, PhD, has been named a 2021 Biomedical Sciences Pew Scholar for his research into the diversity and roles of small RNAs in sperm.
Published on May 21, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
The 2021 Distinguished Research Trainee Award recipients include trainees from a variety of levels and disciplines.
Published on Apr 30, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s news round-up highlights the CCMT’s state-of-the-art Clinical Manufacturing Facility
Published on Mar 5, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s In the News features tetralogy of Fallot, CPR, stroke after SARS-CoV-2 infection, and a link between oxygen therapy and influenza.
Published on Mar 2, 2021 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers have found mice exposed to neonatal hyperoxia have increased influenza susceptibility and disrupted lung circadian clocks.
Published on Feb 19, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s research news features CHOP Oncologist Stephen Hunger, MD, as quoted in a “TODAY Show” article about pediatric cancer research.
Published on Feb 15, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
In the second installment of our Faculty Spotlight series, meet Shaon Sengupta, MBBS, MPH, attending neonatologist and faculty investigator.
Published on Feb 11, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
The 2020 Distinguished Research Trainee Award Recipients include trainees from a variety of levels and disciplines.
Published on Feb 4, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Researchers found that antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 efficiently cross the placenta.
Published on Jan 11, 2021 in Press Releases
Researchers in a CHOP-led study found no benefit to higher red blood cell transfusions in preterm babies.
Published on Jan 8, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s research news features CHOP’s participation in a study that found outcome disparities by race/ethnicity in children with severe sepsis.
Published on Dec 18, 2020 in Cornerstone Blog
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.
Published on Dec 17, 2020 in Press Releases
A $300,000 grant from Independence Blue Cross Foundation and Highmark Delaware will allow researchers to study the effect of COVID-19 on birth outcomes.
Published on Dec 7, 2020 in Press Releases
CHOP-Penn Medicine Study found no significant changes in preterm birth or stillbirth in Philadelphia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published on Nov 20, 2020 in Cornerstone Blog
This week in the news: New awards for our scientists and findings for antibiotic stewardship, gene therapy, and 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.
Published on Sep 28, 2020 in Press Releases
Findings from a new study could lead to treatment for patients with lung disease.
Published on Sep 15, 2020 in Press Releases
CHOP researchers have shown that modern imaging techniques help diagnose lymphatic disorders and guide treatment options.
Published on Aug 11, 2020 in Press Releases
CHOP Researchers found that neighborhood violent crime is associated with high levels of perceived stress during pregnancy.
Published on Jul 29, 2020 in Press Releases
Researchers studied the prevalence of COVID-19 among pregnant women in Philadelphia and found it was higher in Black and Hispanic women.