Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation’s Gift Supports Innovators in Pediatric Health Technology
Did you know that medical devices designed for children lag well behind adult technologies? To speed up pediatric medical device research and development for the youngest patients, the Frederick...
Can a Self-Help Platform Provide Treatment for Youth with Eating Disorders?
Learning that their teen has an eating disorder can be difficult and deeply troubling news for parents. Even more daunting for families is finding that they’re unable to get access to care when they...
Cynthia J. Brandt, PhD, President and CEOWednesday, March 10, 2021
Curing the Incurable: Breakthrough Therapies Transforming the Future of Medicine
“There is no cure.” These words haunt millions of families whose children face a lifetime of incurable illness. While medications and surgical interventions can improve outcomes, these therapies are...
Dear Friends, Each year more than 8,000 donors like you give to the Children’s Fund , supporting programs and services that aren’t covered by insurance but are vital to the well-being of patients...
The tumultuous events of the past year, with the coronavirus pandemic, the global economic crisis, Black Lives Matter protests, and election conflicts all have magnified the issues of gender...
COVID-19 Vaccine Answers from a Stanford Children’s Health Expert
Two COVID-19 vaccines are now being used in the United States, fueling hope that the global pandemic will soon shift to a better-controlled phase. Here, Stanford Children’s Health pediatric...
Tad and Dianne Taube Establish Endowed Professorship in Global Health; Yvonne Maldonado, MD, is Appointed First Holder
Tad and Dianne Taube have made a generous $2 million gift to establish the Taube Professorship in Global Health and Infectious Diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine. It was matched with...
Yesterday we sat down with our friends in the Diabetes and Endocrinology program to hear research insights from our renowned scientists, David Maahs, MD, PhD, and Anna L. Gloyn, DPhil. During the...
Dr. Agnieszka Czechowicz Named a Hyundai Hope Scholar
Cancer research at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford received a push forward thanks to a generous grant from the Hyundai Hope On Wheels Foundation. The $300,000 Hyundai Hope Scholar award...
Dear Friends, I think we can all say that this year has challenged us in ways we never could have anticipated when it began. There have been so many moments of grief, fear, and frustration. But there...
