14th Annual Walk for Hope Benefiting the Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Raises Funds to Support Transformative Research and Care

Very early onset inflammatory bowel disease was virtually unheard of just a decade ago. Today, a variety of personalized therapies exist, and potential curative gene therapies are on the horizon.

Nearly 400 people joined the 2021 Walk for Hope, a week-long virtual event to raise funds to support inflammatory bowel disease research and care at CHOP.

Learn how the Integrative Health Team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) helped children, families and staff during the pandemic.

CHOP’s Center for Pediatric IBD held a day of virtual speakers and discussion groups to better support families dealing with inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis.

While the presentation of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may be very similar, there are clinical clues and diagnostic tools that can help make the crucial distinction between these two conditions.

Andrew B. Grossman, MD, from our Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease discusses the reassuring studies in this MedPageToday article.

Integrating 3D genomics with publicly available, genome-wide genetic data, CHOP researchers uncovered genetic correlations between IBD, stress, and depression.

Physicians and healthcare professionals attended a virtual conference on Personalized IBD and VEO-IBD: Genomics, Microbiome, Biologics and Beyond.

In this Philadelphia Inquirer article, CHOP IBD patient discovers her passion for architecture and engineering.