Dear Friends, Your support of the Children’s Fund is helping to create a more diverse research community on the Stanford campus. Funded in large part by Children’s Fund gifts, the DRIVE (Diversity,...

Donors are an integral part of a team of cancer-fighters, explained Tanja Gruber, MD, PhD, the new director of the Bass Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases at Lucile Packard Children’s...

In 1991, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford opened its doors thanks to a $70 million donation from Lucile Packard, an advocate for the health of children and expectant mothers, and her...

During an unprecedented year, you and 11,966 other donors gave a total of $103 million to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the child and maternal health programs at the Stanford...

The Makhzoumi family chose Packard Children’s for their son’s care and their philanthropic support. Kate and Mohamad Makhzoumi say they felt a mixture of “shock and awe” when their son, Hassan, was...

Mark Skylar-Scott, PhD, joins BASE, Stanford’s new multidisciplinary initiative to cure congenital heart defects. It’s a futuristic 3D printing system—one of only two in the world—and it’s too heavy...

How one family’s tragedy advanced newborn care worldwide. Christopher Hess lived only a short while, but he has saved countless lives. That’s because Christopher’s legacy inspired a philanthropic...

The Gut It Out Foundation , founded by Jake and Amanda Diekman, is fundraising to support the work of the Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) to fund a pilot grant to...

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...