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Topic: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Urgent-care centers drawing investor attention

Urgent-care centers drawing investor attention

April 26, 2013 4:38 am by | 0 Comments

Three private equity firms have contacted Children's Hospital of Philadelphia during the last six months about partnering to open urgent-care centers, Steven Altschuler, the hospital's chief executive, said Thursday.Urgent-care centers ... Read more
Mayo Clinic, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia among first to win PCORI grant money

Mayo Clinic, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia among first to win PCORI grant money

December 19, 2012 5:03 pm by | 0 Comments

It took awhile but the White House decided to take back the label Obamacare and put a positive spin on it. The administration’s next marketing campaign should be around PCORI. ... Read more
Genetically engineered T cell treatment puts leukemia in remission for 4 people

Genetically engineered T cell treatment puts leukemia in remission for 4 people

December 10, 2012 7:19 am by | 0 Comments

A 7-year-old named Emily Whitehead has erased any remaining doubts about the power of a University of Pennsylvania gene therapy to eradicate certain blood cancers.The therapy is personalized using each ... Read more
‘Recovering scientist’ helps researchers and entrepreneurs understand each other at Philly’s Children’s Hospital

‘Recovering scientist’ helps researchers and entrepreneurs understand each other at Philly’s Children’s Hospital

July 3, 2012 8:45 am by | 1 Comments

Ellen Purpus, the director of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia‘s technology transfer office, enjoys talking brain candy with scientists, product development with businesspeople and having a front row seat to ... Read more
New stem cell line could form building blocks for cell-based diabetes therapy

New stem cell line could form building blocks for cell-based diabetes therapy

April 5, 2012 3:50 pm by | 0 Comments

Researchers have developed a new human stem cell line that could be used as the building blocks for new diabetes and liver treatments.The endodermal progenitor cells were produced by a ... Read more
Magnetic therapy for peripheral artery disease gets $7 million

Magnetic therapy for peripheral artery disease gets $7 million

February 22, 2012 10:45 am by | 0 Comments

A therapeutics company that has developed a magnetic drug-delivery therapy to treat peripheral artery disease has received a $7 million venture capital investment in a series A financing round.Devon Park ... Read more
Newborn screening program data collected to track congenital disease treatment

Newborn screening program data collected to track congenital disease treatment

January 25, 2012 12:15 pm by | 0 Comments

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is developing a data storage system connected to its newborn screening program to track the treatment of rare congenital diseases for research scientists to use.It ... Read more
Children’s Hospital Facebook page becomes forum for transplant ethics debate

Children’s Hospital Facebook page becomes forum for transplant ethics debate

January 17, 2012 12:59 pm by | 0 Comments

A mother’s blog post alleging that a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia physician explained that her daughter was turned down for a kidney transplant because she is intellectually disabled has sparked ... Read more
CHOP forms partnership with genomics center

CHOP forms partnership with genomics center

November 9, 2011 12:25 pm by | 0 Comments

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has partnered with Beijing Genomics Institute, or BGI, the largest genomics institute in the world, to do large-scale human sequencing and bioinformatics analysis at the ... Read more
Penn Medicine to expand use of EMR software to find clinical trial candidates

Penn Medicine to expand use of EMR software to find clinical trial candidates

October 31, 2011 2:03 pm by | 1 Comments

Penn Medicine is moving ahead with a tool that flags candidates for clinical trials in its electronic medical record systems after finishing a successful pilot program that drove clinician referrals.Penn ... Read more