BENCH to BEDSIDE

The Morgan Center for Research and Innovation expands Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's state-of-the-art research environment. Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Susan Furth invited Audrey Odom John, MD, PhD, to discuss her involvement with planning her new lab space, and how new technologies and opportunities for collaboration will bolster her research within the Immunology and Infectious Diseases Research Initiative.

With an anticipated end-of-year opening of the 17-story, 350,000 square-foot Morgan Center for Research & Innovation, Dr. Sue Furth invited Donald Moore, senior vice president of CHOP’s Real Estate, Facilities, and Operations, to discuss how the project came to fruition, what researchers and the Philadelphia community can look forward to experiencing, and how Moore helped facilitate the project to its completion.

Since establishing the first surgical intensive care unit (ICU) for newborns and infants in 1962, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has been at the forefront of transforming care for its tiniest patients. The Delivery Room of the Future Frontier Program, directed by neonatologist Elizabeth Foglia, MD, aims to provide every infant a chance at the healthiest outcomes and quality of life. 

“Be bold. Solve important problems,” shares Bench to Bedside guest, Flaura Winston, MD, PhD, founder and co-scientific director of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention. Hear how this Center of Emphasis takes a research action to impact approach when it comes to preventing injury in children. 

Dr. Beverly Davidson and her multidisciplinary team at the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics are working on “aha moments,” both big and small, to improve gene and cell therapies in search of cures for debilitating disorders.

Join the conversation with Hakon Hakonarson, MD, PhD, founding director of the Center for Applied Genomics, where scientists develop new and better ways to diagnose and treat children affected by rare and complex medical disorders.

Dr. Diana Montoya-Williams wants her advocacy-informed research to matter to the communities she is trying to help. She's an attending neonatologist and faculty member of PolicyLab at CHOP whose research covers health disparities, social determinants of health, perinatal health policy, and immigration policies.  

Paulette McRae, PhD, Associate Director of Specialty Programs and Diversity in the Office of Academic Training and Outreach Programs, has devoted her career to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives that open doors for the next generation, so that they can see how they can make a difference in research.

The Center for Health Equity at CHOP aims to address social disease and provide unbiased clinical care so that children in Philadelphia and beyond can achieve their best health. The Center's Director Tyra Bryant-Stephens, nationally recognized for her work in community-driven, evidence-based research in asthma interventions, shares why "health equity is a state of mind.

Seeing discoveries happen is "one of the most invigorating and exciting parts of my job," shares Bench to Bedside guest, Madeline Bell, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia President and Chief Executive Officer. Hear how research touches every part of CHOP, and the ways we're continuing our legacy of 100 years of trailblazing research.

Much like the scientist who led the first research lab at CHOP in 1922, our Bench to Bedside guest, Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center, has spent most of his career studying infectious diseases with a focus on vaccine development. He gives us a look back at how vaccine development has evolved and shares "the most fun time of his life" as a scientist.