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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Adds Transformative Gene Therapy and Expands to 10 Treatments, Becoming the Largest Provider of Pediatric Cell and Gene Therapies on the West Coast

January 27, 2025

Milestone expansion strengthens access to state-of-the art therapies for children, adolescents, and young adults.

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Care Innovation

Improving Access to Cell and Gene Therapy in Pediatrics

October 2, 2024

Gene therapy holds tremendous potential for children, but many promising therapies are shelved. Here’s what a new model could look like.

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Research and Breakthroughs

What Is Gene Therapy?

August 26, 2024

How next-generation gene therapies target the underlying causes of genetic diseases.

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Press Release

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Neurologist Honored With Prestigious Research Award

March 4, 2024

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles neurologist Shafali Spurling Jeste, MD, received the 2024 Martha Bridge Denckla Award from the Child Neurology Society.

Press Release

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Awarded $6 Million from CIRM to Advance CAR T-Cell Therapies in Recurring Solid Tumors in Children

February 29, 2024

CHLA Researchers receive CIRM award to develop regenerative therapy for recurring solid tumors in children.

Press Release

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Names Alan S. Wayne, MD, as Pediatrician-in-Chief and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs

September 14, 2023

Wayne also named as Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Press Release

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Offers MIBG Therapy for Neuroblastoma

July 15, 2022

Children with high-risk neuroblastoma can now access MIBG therapy in Southern California, at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

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Hospital News

A Partnership Is Making a 'Huge Impact' on Childhood Cancer

May 16, 2021

5 Questions for Jeri Wilson, Executive Director of the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

Research and Breakthroughs

New cGMP Facility to Benefit Patient Care and Research

April 20, 2021

A state-of-the-art cell therapeutics facility will support the translation of novel cell therapy and tissue engineering approaches into clinical testing for a wide range of human diseases.

Press Release

Diet + Exercise + Chemo = Increased Survival in Youth with Leukemia

April 1, 2021

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles study finds risk of detectable cancer cells decreased by 70% after one month of treatment in patients with ALL.

Alan S. Wayne, MD News

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