Children's National Health System
Public-Private Effort Leverages WGS to Speed Diagnosis of Rare Genetic Developmental Disorders
Project FIND-OUT aims to recruit 50 infants to study the impact of genetic testing on families and increase access to genetic testing within the US.
The technology has been licensed by MGeneRx, which plans to commercialize it in the US first, then expand to low- and middle-income countries.
Children's National Hospital Wins $12.8M NIH Grant for Pediatric Mendelian Genomics Research Center
The hospital is partnering with Invitae to recruit pediatric patients for genomic analyses that could help improve diagnosis and treatment of inherited disorders.
National Cancer Institute Awards $4M to Brain Tumor Sequencing Projects
The projects are organized by the Eliminate Cancer Initiative, the National Brain Tumor Society, and the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation.
Children's National Rare Disease Institute to Improve Diagnosis as First Step to Better Treatments
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The new institute plans to use structured clinical information to inform targeted testing in order to cut down the time to diagnosis.