Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced that it has received a significant gift from Susan and Steve Kelly, local philanthropists and long-time supporters of CHOP, to establish the Susan S. and Stephen P. Kelly Center for Cancer Immunotherapy.
The new center will allow CHOP to create a more robust infrastructure to expand pediatric clinical trials and accelerate FDA approval of novel treatments; increase the pipeline of innovative therapeutics and diagnostics; recruit and train top investigators and postdoctoral researchers to become the next generation of cancer immunotherapy experts; and increase equity and access to cell therapy clinical trials for socioeconomically disadvantaged patients.
The gift will also advance CHOP’s ability to deliver cell therapies to even more patients, using procedures to genetically modify a patient’s own bone marrow stem cells to cure inherited blood disorders, which affect more than 100,000 people in the United States. Read more.
