Vice President Joe Biden’s ambitious “Moonshot” initiative is aimed at boosting and streamlining cancer research across the country. We asked Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, PhD, chief of the Division of Cancer Pathobiology and an investigator for the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, to share his thoughts on how this strategic plan is changing the landscape of pediatric cancer research.
At the 13th Annual Dream & Promise Gala, set to be held tonight in New York, the Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation will honor Tom Curran, PhD, FRS, with the 2015 Fred J. Epstein, MD, Lifetime Achievement Award.
Two recent awards to CHOP researchers show the incredible breadth of research being conducted at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute every day. Supported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health's Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement program, Struan Grant, Phd, will lead an investigation of the genetic links between type 2 diabetes and cancer, while Jennifer F. Culhane, PhD, will study developmental-behavioral screening instruments in children.
