Discovery Together
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is a leading site in the U.S. for world-changing pediatric clinical studies. We have a robust portfolio of active clinical research working with diverse patient populations across a variety of study types and fields. Comprehensive administrative research support ensures researchers at all levels perform highly productive, cost-effective studies that prioritize the patient-family experience. With the help of patients and healthy control participants, we’re finding answers to common, complex conditions and the rarest pediatric diseases. Check out our Research Discovery Finder for more information.
Did You Know?
- CHOP Research Institute is one of the nation’s largest recipients of National Institutes of Health funding made available to pediatric hospitals.
- Annually, CHOP Research Institute has between 2,500 and 2,600 investigator-initiated, industry- and federally-sponsored, and foundation-supported IRB active protocols.
- CHOP developed the first two FDA-approved gene therapies. Currently, more than two dozen cell and gene therapy trials are enrolling patients at CHOP.
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Featured Studies
The purpose of this study is to understand how children’s brains process sounds and language.
A research study about bone health in children and adolescents at high risk of suffering a broken bone.
The purpose of this study is to understand how children and adolescents respond to different emotions and social situations.
The goal of this study is to find out if we can develop a digital health approach that can increase sleep duration and improve growth outcomes in children.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is recruiting teen drivers to participate in a study that is testing different types of driver training program for reducing new driver crash risk.
Researchers from General Pediatrics are conducting focus groups on Child Adult Relationship Enhancement in Pediatric Primary Care (PriCARE), a parenting group program that helps to improve children's behaviors and strengthen the caregiver-child relationship.