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Research Staff Spotlight: Jennifer Alvarez

December 12, 2024

Associate Research Specialist Jennifer Alvarez’s interest in neuroscience and lab work led her to CHLA, where she is investigating the effects of maternal immune activation on the fetal brain.

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Staff Spotlight: Jean-Hugues Parmentier, PhD

May 19, 2023

Jean is helping to develop a liquid biopsy for solid tumors—a collaborative project with the Center for Personalized Medicine and USC.

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ResearCHLA 2021 Highlights

October 14, 2021

In the News - Awards and Honors - New Faces

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Teamwork: How CHLA Stayed Ahead of the COVID-19 Curve

October 13, 2021

Discoveries moved from the lab to the patient in record time.

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Publishes Largest Genomic Study of COVID-19 in Children to Date

November 24, 2020

Research suggests a potential link between SARS-CoV-2 mutations and disease severity.

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Going Beyond HLA Typing in Kidney Transplant

November 3, 2020

More precise analysis aims to help transplanted organs last longer—with less immunosuppression.

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The Many Faces of Coronavirus and COVID-19 Research

July 20, 2020

From basic research to epidemiological data, investigators in The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles are taking on COVID-19 research from multiple directions.

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How Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Is Keeping Families Safe During COVID-19

May 19, 2020

When Jenn and Mike Dupke had to take their 4-year-old son, Rhett, to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for a week this spring—in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic—they were nervous. Rhett has been

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Ahead of the COVID-19 Curve

April 22, 2020

How the foresight of one CHLA investigator impacted the entire institution—and the community.

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One Step Closer in the Search for an “Autism Gene”

April 2, 2015

CHLA researcher Di Tian collaborated with investigators and MIT and Cold Spring Harbor laboratories in an effort to help pinpoint the genetic foundation for autism spectrum disorder.

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