Investing in research for kids (excerpt)
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute
Investing in the best possible future for kids
When an infant or child becomes sick, questions need to be answered quickly, and without mistake. Often, the diagnosis is clear and the treatment plan well established. Those children leave our hospital happy and healthy.
Sometimes, however, the answers don’t come easily.
When it’s your child you need answers for, it’s not enough to have world-class pediatric health care on your doorstep — you want world-class research, too.
At Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, our philosophy is that you can’t have one without the other; world-class research informs world-class care, and vice versa. Our doctors and scientists work together to bring tough cases to the laboratory, and take proven results back to the bedside, where they help kids.When the worst happens, Wisconsin families do not have to take their seriously sick children out of state for answers. They just have to come here.
- There are only 21 elite Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Phase 1 clinical trials centers in the U.S. One of them is at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. This means our children benefit from cutting-edge novel research and are cared for by a team that is at the forefront of discovering new therapies.
- We are working on 1,000+ active clinical trials.•Our hematology program is a nationally recognized center of excellence for bleeding and thrombotic disorders and cares for more than 300 children with sickle cell disease each year.
- Children’s has one of the most experienced and successful blood and marrow transplant programs in the nation, with more than 1,100 transplants to date, and continues to lead the field in research.
We are expanding our research into understanding how to harness immune cells to fight cancer and reduce transplant-related mortality.
We need your help
Every day in our hospital, there are children fighting for their lives. Every day, we work to find new and better ways to help them win. We can’t do it without your help.
Basic research funding has traditionally come from the government, from the National Institutes of Health. But NIH funding has been drastically cut and the portion of funds devoted to pediatric research has remained flat since fiscal-year 1992. When it comes to innovative research, NIH funds are not an option; our scientists have always relied on donors. In today’s fiscal climate, our researchers rely on philanthropic investment more than ever. Simply put, your investment in CRI allows us to continue this critical part of our work at Children’s. Your gift helps us to find answers.
