CHOP Lands $100K Gift to Hunt Genes Linked to Child Brain Tumors

Jan 02, 2009

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has received a $100,000 donation from a non-profit organization focused on childhood brain tumor research, which it will use in its genomics programs.

The Oceanport, NJ-based Kortney Rose Foundation said that it has pledged the funding to CHOP for use in its large-scale genomics research at its Center for Applied Genomics.

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