CHOP launches precision medicine center

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is opening a precision medicine center called the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine.

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Much of the center’s focus will be on targeting specific, biological abnormalities in childhood cancer, but the center will also work with other rare pediatric diseases. 

“Change is urgently needed in pediatric research, where territorial boundaries, scarce data and limited technological infrastructures impede medical progress,” said Philip Storm, MD, division chief of neurosurgery at CHOP and the center’s co-director. “Our center has a goal of developing new models for collaboration, data sharing and scientific integration.”

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