With deep sadness we announce the passing of Lori J. Howell, DNP, MS, RN, beloved former Executive Director for CHOP’s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment.

Representing excellence across the breadth of academic medicine, the physician-scientists are among 100 active members across 50 institutions elected in 2024.

CHOP researchers have identified an ionizable LNP that can deliver mRNA base editing tools to the brain to mitigate CNS disease in perinatal mouse models.

A Penn Medicine and CHOP team will seek to develop treatments for three rare, incurable genetic diseases with the help of a $26 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is pleased to have once again been named one of the Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. We are proud to continue to be at the top of this list and congratulate our peer hospitals who join us in this year’s rankings.

Yesterday, more than 3,000 people gathered at the Philadelphia Zoo to celebrate the 27th Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Fetal Family Reunion, representing patients and families from across the country.

The Philadelphia County Medical Society (PCMS) has awarded CHOP surgeon Holly L. Hedrick, MD the 2023 Strittmatter Award, its most prestigious scientific honor.

Lindsay Zajac Adams, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), was the November 2022 recipient of the monthly POPPIES Award.

The Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment (CFDT) at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has again won an award from Press Ganey, a healthcare company that evaluates patient satisfaction.

CHOP has a core team that performs immediate stabilization and resuscitation of high-risk infants during the time immediately after birth.