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Published on May 16, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
This edition of In the News features Dr. Susan Furth, who was honored with a Corporate Leadership Award from the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Published on Apr 25, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
Four researchers-in-training at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia received the 2025 Distinguished Research Trainee Award.
Published on Mar 18, 2025 in Cornerstone Blog
The researchers' goal is to develop personalized resuscitation strategies, guided by patient characteristics and real-time physiology.
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 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 Jul 18, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Fellow Dr. Vanessa Denny describes her subspecialty fellowship experience and how she has incorporated global health into her training.
Published on Jul 10, 2024 in Press Releases
1 in 6 youths also filled an opioid prescription two weeks prior to the actual surgery, increasing risk of persistent opioid use.
Published on May 22, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Meet the Award for Excellence in Mentoring Research Trainee recipients, honored for their exceptional support of up-and-coming scientists.
Published on May 6, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
The Lynch Lab for Novel Biomedical Optics is building a noninvasive optical neuromonitoring research device to study neurologic injury risk.
Published on Apr 24, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Elizabeth McGovern, MD, MPH, understands the high risks procedures like tracheal intubation carry, and as our April Faculty Spotlight, she educates future generations of clinicians on best practices.
Published on Feb 26, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
Dr. Brad Lindell explains how the Junior Faculty Award allowed his lab to build a large multi-omics sepsis dataset that may help researchers identify novel proteomic signatures related to high-risk adverse events.
Published on Feb 9, 2024 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP researchers test novel system to help patients with severe complication related to congenital heart disease avoid open heart surgery.
Published on Nov 13, 2023 in Press Releases
In an abstract presented at AHA, researchers found Black children are more than four times as likely to experience cardiac arrest and have significantly worse survival outcomes.
Published on Nov 10, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s research news features awards for furthering patient-centered outcomes research careers and for recognizing the importance of mentorship.
Published on Jul 14, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Outside of the Eisch Lab, Fred Kiffer, PhD, pushes his limits in a different way by entering endurance rock climbing competitions.
Published on May 17, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
The 10th annual CRC RE@CH Awards celebrated CHOP’s clinical research coordinators for their hard work and dedication.
Published on Apr 5, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
The CHOP Global Scientific Excellence Award supports researchers-in-training to improve pediatric healthcare and outcomes for all children.
Published on Mar 1, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Three emerging innovators at CHOP Research Institute presented their high-impact research at a session in January.
Published on Feb 7, 2023 in Cornerstone Blog
Our Featured Research Trainee for February, Stephanie Bowles, PhD, studies the role of stress in disease development.
Published on Nov 9, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
A U.S. Department of Defense grant will support CHOP researchers in their study of noninvasive methods to diagnose mitochondrial diseases.
Published on Oct 25, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
Robert Berg, MD, receives Distinguished Career Award from American Academy of Pediatrics for his contributions to the field of resuscitation science.
Published on Aug 12, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
As a CHOP research assistant, Alana Cianciulli found a way to combine her passions for art and science.
Published on Feb 14, 2022 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP Academy for Resuscitation of Children, an international training center, aims to improve pediatric in-hospital resuscitation outcomes.
Published on Sep 8, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
In a first-of-its-kind study comparing rates and types of CPR, CHOP researchers find bystander rescue-breathing CPR leads to better outcomes in pediatric cardiac arrest.
Published on Aug 12, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Meet this year’s CHOP-RISES scholars, who engaged in a unique hybrid curriculum involving hands-on work in our labs and virtual learning.
Published on Aug 4, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Congratulations to the 2021 Carol Marcus Award Recipients: Christopher Bonafide, MD, MSCE; Robert Sutton, MD, MSCE; and Joanne Wood, MD, MSHP.
Published on Jul 6, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Misun Hwang, MD, is developing a noninvasive monitoring system to measure intracranial pressure using contrast-enhanced ultrasound.
Published on May 14, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s research news features Ran Barzilay, PhD, and the results of the latest COVID-19 Resilience Project from the Lifespan Brain Institute.
Published on Mar 10, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
We feature seven more women in STEM at CHOP nominated by leaders of their Centers of Emphasis.
Published on Feb 8, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Martha Curley, RN, PhD, Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Nursing, shares her transformative work and perspective on nursing research in this Q&A.
Published on Feb 5, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Discover new findings about COVID-19 testing before surgery, the link between mitochondria and autism, and how neighborhoods affect sleep.
Published on Feb 2, 2021 in Press Releases
The finding could lead to more efficient use of COVID-19 testing resources for pediatric patients.
Published on Jan 26, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Multidisciplinary team takes a coordinated approach to treat valve diseases and expand the existing knowledge of these complex conditions.
Published on Jan 11, 2021 in Cornerstone Blog
Join us in congratulating our 2020 recipients of the Excellence in Mentoring Trainees Award, Akiva Cohen, PhD, and Joseph Zackular, PhD.
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 Aug 5, 2020 in Cornerstone Blog
Meet Warren Frankenberger, PhD, RN, a nurse scientist in the Center for Pediatric Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice at CHOP.
Published on Jul 20, 2020 in Cornerstone Blog
Audrey Odom John, MD, PhD, is assessing concordance of SARS-CoV-2 in upper and lower respiratory tracts of children undergoing airway procedures.
Published on Jun 24, 2020 in Cornerstone Blog
Meet Ruth Lebet, PhD, RN, a nurse scientist in the Center for Pediatric Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice at CHOP.
Published on Jun 18, 2020 in Press Releases
Researchers identified key characteristics of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), an immune response after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Published on Jun 5, 2020 in Cornerstone Blog
CHOP stays on top of COVID-19 research, from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children to social distancing’s impact on fractures.
Published on Jun 4, 2020 in Press Releases
Universally screening pediatric patients for COVID-19 before they undergo surgical procedures enables hospitals to improve safety.
Published on Jun 3, 2020 in Cornerstone Blog
Individualized Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is at the center of cardiac arrest research at CHOP.
Published on May 26, 2020 in Cornerstone Blog
David Teachey, MD, and colleagues are exploring convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2.
Published on May 14, 2020 in Press Releases
Teams at CHOP are using a collaborative approach to identify and test potential treatments for COVID-19.
Published on Sep 6, 2019 in Cornerstone Blog
This week’s news roundup highlights recent research on stress resilience, obesity genetics, and autism spectrum disorder.
Published on May 17, 2019 in Cornerstone Blog
In this week’s recap, our researchers make headlines with their work in endocrinology, autism research, telehealth, the gut-brain connection, and more.
Published on Mar 11, 2019 in Cornerstone Blog
In this week’s roundup, learn about new findings in obesity and vitamin D, predicting early sepsis, and mitochondrial disorders.
Published on Mar 1, 2019 in Press Releases
Automated programs can identify which sick infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) have sepsis hours before clinicians recognize the life-threatening condition. A team of data researchers and physician-scientists tested machine-learning models in a NICU population,…
Published on Feb 8, 2019 in Cornerstone Blog
In this week’s recap, collaboration at the local and international levels takes center stage.
Published on Jan 29, 2019 in Press Releases
As the opioid epidemic continues to plague the United States, physician researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) analyzed prescription patterns in children.
Published on Jan 25, 2019 in Cornerstone Blog
From stem cell fertility research to staying alert for teen suicidal thoughts, this week’s research headlines spark conversations in the news.
Published on Apr 16, 2018 in Cornerstone Blog
An "aha moment" leads neurobiology researchers to investigate how precisely tuning specific brain circuitry could one day help fight depression.
Published on Aug 1, 2017 in Cornerstone Blog
A two-step electronic alert system successfully reduced missed sepsis diagnoses in children by 76 percent. The new pediatric protocol, which incorporates the use of vital signs, risk factors, and a clinician's judgment, shows promise as a sensitive and specific tool that…
Published on Jun 13, 2017 in Press Releases
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is celebrating 50 years of caring for critically ill and injured infants, children and adolescents. CHOP established the nation’s first pediatric critical care unit in 1967.
Published on May 11, 2017 in Cornerstone Blog
When it comes to bedside alarms for conditions like low oxygen saturation, tachycardia, or cardiac arrhythmias, four main factors contribute to faster nurse response times.
Published on Jun 24, 2016 in Cornerstone Blog
Whether children are under the steady hand of surgeon and anesthesiologist, or medical and research trainees are under the guidance of an experienced mentor, knowledge makes all the difference. This much is clear from the top stories in our weekly roundup of research news at The…
Published on Jun 10, 2016 in Cornerstone Blog
We like to highlight the whole range of research at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, from basic discoveries at the lab bench to clinical findings applied at the patient's bedside. But we have an abundance of updates to share today about the clinical side of…
Published on Jul 6, 2015 in Cornerstone Blog
The World Health Organization predicts pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) will become a major cause of death and disability of children within the next several years.
Published on Feb 20, 2015 in Cornerstone Blog
The Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) announced that it will provide seed grants of $25,000 each to three companies to transform their innovative ideas into commercial devices that benefit young patients.
Published on Sep 4, 2014 in Cornerstone Blog
Dr. Barr recently received a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine the immune system’s role in opioid dependence during early development.
Published on Nov 7, 2013 in Cornerstone Blog
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Vinay M. Nadkarni, MD, recently received a Distinguished Career Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Medical director of the Center for Simulation, Advanced Education, and Innovation, Dr. Nakarni is a leading…
Published on Feb 1, 2013 in Cornerstone Blog
Two recently published studies show that extending cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) longer than previously thought useful saves lives in children and adults. The research teams analyzed the impact of duration of CPR in patients who suffered cardiac arrest while hospitalized.