Dr. Laetsch is a pediatric oncologist who provides clinical care and conducts research with the overarching goal of improving treatment options for children with difficult to treat cancers.
This week’s roundup features research exploring the value of well care as voiced by Black adolescent males and their parents. This and more In The News.
Investigators in the Center for Childhood Cancer Research have received a five-year grant totaling more than $12.5 million to develop the Center for Pediatric Tumor Cell Atlas.
Physician-scientists from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) contributed crucial data and expertise to the first pan-cancer analysis of children’s cancer, published today in the journal Nature. Pan-cancer analyses identify similarities and differences among the biological changes across diverse types of cancer, with the aim of discovering insights for improved care.
Christoph Seiler, PhD, received a Foerderer Fund for Excellence award at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2015 to study this mechanism. German-born Dr. Seiler pointed out that “Foerderer,” in German, means supporter or sponsor. Its name is therefore apt, because the internal award program spurs research projects that need a bit of support to generate pilot data that can later help those projects stand out in the competitive awarding of external funds.
