CHOP researchers and innovators now have the opportunity to connect with Penn Medicine and Engineering through the newly launched Center for Health, Devices, and Technology
September marks National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and this year at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, we kick-started the commemorative period on the heels of exciting news about breakthroughs in pediatric cancer immunotherapy research.
Monrovia, Calif.-based St. Baldrick's Foundation recently announced $699,186 in grants to one consortium and three cancer researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The Testicular Cryopreservation Consortium will receive $125,000, while Children's Hospital investigators Shannon Maude, MD, PhD, Michael Hogarty, MD, and Vandana Batra, MD, will receive $330,000, $110,000, and $134,186, respectively.
As part of its mission to find "a cure for all children with cancer," Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation recently announced more than $7 million in new grants to researchers around the country, including four at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Children's Hospital investigators Garrett Brodeur, MD, Michael Hogarty, MD, Richard Aplenc, MD, and Robert Schnepp, MD, PhD, all received grants from the organization, for a total of $800,000 in cancer research funding.
