The $200,000 award will fund research to develop a novel therapeutic that ignites the immune system and could act as a stand-alone treatment, as well as boost the effectiveness of existing immunotherapies.

Charlotte, 40, is a primary care pediatrician at a busy urban clinic. She has been in her current position for 6 years. She is also a parent of a 6- and a 10 -year-old.

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Learning to perform retinal examinations on extremely low birth weight babies is essential to pediatric ophthalmology.

A multicenter group of 41 hospitals led by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has confirmed that an improved method for predicting retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) was able to reduce the number of babies having invasive diagnostic examinations by nearly a third, while raising disease detection up to 100%.

In our busy CHOP Ophthalmology practice, we see many aphakic (an eye without the natural crystalline lens) children.

A 4-year-old boy presented to the emergency room reporting 2 weeks of right knee pain, swelling, and limping.

A 10-month-old female infant was referred to the Neuro-ophthalmology clinic at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for a new-onset lid ptosis and pupillary miosis on the right side.

BS was a 6-week-old male who was in the operating room at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for a routine hernia repair.