Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia Launches Precision Medicine Center

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) plans to bring precision medicine to young patients through its new Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine. The new center initially will focus on childhood cancers, but later will branch out into other rare diseases. The center will take an open-source approach to the integration of complex genomic and clinical patient data, and develop open-access platforms that support collaboration. It plans to share information with researchers worldwide to develop precise, less toxic clinical treatments for children. The center will build on CHOP's existing resources, such as its biospecimen and bioinformatics . . .