Happy Anniversary @PeriwinkleFoundation! For over 40 years, through arts and camp activities, you have enriched the lives of countless patients & their families. Thank you for being part of the Texas Children's community! #40YearsOfPeriwinkleFoundation

Congrats to Dr. Leonid Metelitsa
Texas Children's BCMHouston, who has been named a recipient of @BCMHouston's 2024 Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., Excellence in Research Awards! Great to see his contributions to #Cancer immunology & development of novel immunotherapies recognized.

Happy to share the news that Dr. Lisa Bouchier-Hayes Texas Children's & @BCMHouston received an NIH R01 grant! The funding will support her project titled, “Inflammatory Caspase Activation in Sickle Cell Disease.”

Join us Friday, April 19th, from 11am-12pm in N315, Alkek building for the weekly #neuroscience seminar featuring Dr. Matthew McGinley from Baylor College of Medicine.
Seminar Title ‘Modulating Neuromodulators to Enhance Cognition’.

Please join us for our upcoming Scientific Seminar!
Presenter: Dr. Rayne Rouce (Texas Children's)
Date: Friday, April 19, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM EST
Register: caringcross.org/events
#HealthcareInnovation #GeneModification #HealthcareCommunity #Science BCMHouston

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Congrats to Dr. YoungNa Lee-Kim, who has been invited to serve as 2024-2025 Chair-Elect of the Fellowship Directors’ Executive Committee APPD! In this role she will promote inclusiveness and pediatric #medicaleducationinnovation . Texas Children's BCMHouston

Congratulations to Dr. Casey McAtee for two distinctions! An invitation to join Pediatric Hematology Oncology Journal's EdBoard & to serve on SIOP International's Programme for Advancing the Research Capacity Scientific Committee, which is bolstering evidence-based #pedonc in Sub-Saharan Africa. #GlobalHealth

Congratulations Dr. Chang! Yuan Chang

⬇️see this. we are headed in the wrong direction, folks. Vaccinate your kids, they deserve the same protection all of us have had from these viruses.
How did we get here?

It was great meeting ⁦Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD⁩ in person today after he gave amazing ⁦NU Internal Medicine grand⁩ rounds ⁦⁦Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Here presenting him with a ⁦Lurie Cancer Center⁩ shirt!

4/n I will also explain why some members of the US Congress, other elected officials, Fox News seek to not only tear down American science but also attack biomedical scientists to portray us as public enemies. How it stokes a faux outrage machine and a political base

Can precision medicine based ex vivo drug screens using patient samples work for children? This study demonstrates that the answer may be yes. nature.com/articles/s4159…