Bench to Bedside
Engaging and inspirational, Bench to Bedside tells how CHOP Research Institute turns scientific discovery into medical innovation for pediatric patients. In candid conversations with leaders across the organization, Dr. Susan Furth shares how they promote collaboration and focus on new horizons in pediatric science. Guests explore their research endeavors, what motivates their career success, and why they are excited by the opportunity to perform high caliber research that can improve children's health and transform their futures.
Episodes
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Precision medicine, also known as personalized medicine, has revolutionized how physicians and scientists treat and study disease. According to Theodore Laetsch, MD, an oncologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, this ability to track and tailor individual patients’ unique genetic signatures has the most transformative potential in pediatric cancer. In this episode of Bench to Bedside, Dr. Laetsch shares how his new Frontier Program, the Center for Precision Medicine for High-risk Pediatric Cancer, harnesses advanced technologies and a growing multi omics database to optimize outcomes for childhood cancer patients.
Friday Feb 09, 2024
New Frontiers: Talking Heart-to-Heart About Pediatric Heart Failure
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
From pathology to prognosis, heart failure in children appears vastly different than it does in adults. How we study, approach, and ultimately treat the disease should too, according to Joseph Rossano, MD, chief of the Division of Cardiology at CHOP. As director of the Advanced Cardiac Therapies for Heart Failure Patients Frontier Program, Dr. Rossano aims to bring cutting-edge scientific discoveries from the bench to the bedside with this in mind.
Friday Jan 12, 2024
New Frontiers: At the Forefront of Hemophilia Treatment With CHOP
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
With a stroll down the hallway at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, you run into a tremendous knowledge base and expertise to help answer challenging scientific questions in pediatrics. Lindsey George, MD, PhD, director of the Novel Therapeutics for Bleeding Disorders Frontier Program, shares how this combined clinical experience in gene therapy for hemophilia and in other related bleeding disorders leads toward innovative approaches.
Friday Dec 08, 2023
New Frontiers: CHOP Neonatologists Develop the Delivery Room of the Future
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Friday Dec 08, 2023
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.
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
100 Years of Research: Driven to Prevent Injury in Children
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
Tuesday Oct 03, 2023
“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.
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
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.
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
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.
Friday Jan 27, 2023
100 Years of Research: Solutions-oriented Health Equity Research
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
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.
Friday Dec 16, 2022
100 Years of Research: Building an Environment Where People Want to Be
Friday Dec 16, 2022
Friday Dec 16, 2022
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.
Monday Nov 21, 2022
100 Years of Research: Health Equity is Everybody’s Work
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
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.