BENCH to BEDSIDE

Building Breakthroughs: Morgan Center’s IDEA Lab Invites Innovation with Elizabeth Silvestro, PhD

The Innovate, Design, Engineer, and Accelerate (IDEA) Lab will be a centerpiece of the Morgan Center for Research and Innovation at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute. Researchers will have the on-campus ability to shape their creativity with resources for biofabrication. In this episode of the Bench to Bedside podcast, host Susan Furth, MD, PhD, invited the leader of the IDEA Lab, Elizabeth Silvestro, PhD, to learn more about the manufacturing lab’s capabilities and how it's pushing research to new engineering heights.

Building Breakthroughs: Making Space for Team Science with Audrey Odom John, MD, PhD

The Morgan Center for Research and Innovation expands Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's state-of-the-art research environment. Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Susan Furth invited Audrey Odom John, MD, PhD, to discuss her involvement with planning her new lab space, and how new technologies and opportunities for collaboration will bolster her research within the Immunology and Infectious Diseases Research Initiative.

Building Breakthroughs: From Planning to Construction with Donald E. Moore

With an anticipated end-of-year opening of the 17-story, 350,000 square-foot Morgan Center for Research & Innovation, Dr. Sue Furth invited Donald Moore, senior vice president of CHOP’s Real Estate, Facilities, and Operations, to discuss how the project came to fruition, what researchers and the Philadelphia community can look forward to experiencing, and how Moore helped facilitate the project to its completion.

The Power of Philanthropy for Pediatric Research: PI Perspectives from Laura Adang, MD, PhD

In the second installment of our Power of Philanthropy series, host Susan Furth, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at CHOP, chats with Laura Adang, MD, PhD, an attending physician in the Division of Neurology. Dr. Adang's research is grounded in years of learning, relationship-building, and collaboration with patients, families, and family-founded organizations who raise funds and awareness for research into leukodystrophies, a group of rare neurological disorders.

The Power of Philanthropy for Pediatric Research: Insights From Monica Taylor Lotty, Chief Development Officer at CHOP

In the first part of our Bench to Bedside series focused on the transformative power of donations, gifts, and investments to support pediatric research, Monica Taylor Lotty, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia’s Chief Development Officer, shares the deeply heartfelt reasons behind philanthropy, which, at its core, “literally means love of humanity”.   Learn more about how you can support children's health by contacting the CHOP Foundation: https://www.chop.edu/giving [https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chop.edu%2Fgiving&data=05%7C02%7CLIMJR%40chop.edu%7C974956bffe2e45ad1d5008dda9e15e5c%7Ca611241607b041a59bb1d146b575c975%7C0%7C0%7C638853507626352277%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=o48VE%2FSV09WRJviy26cRJFnlJFSfvpNTN4otId3RCJs%3D&reserved=0]