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Oct 27, 2025
Nationwide Foundation’s $10 million Pediatric Innovation Fund supports Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s affordable housing, clinical research work
The Nationwide Foundation announced today a $10 million investment through its Pediatric Innovation Fund to expand Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s affordable housing in the Linden and South Side neighborhoods and advance the hospital’s groundbreaking work in genomic medicine, data science and clinical research. The 2025 gift, which builds on more than a decade of philanthropic investments in vital programs, supports key hospital initiatives including biomedical data sciences, genomics, population health, endowed chairs and behavioral health. These programs seek to help all children have a healthy future, whether they live in central Ohio or across the United States.
Oct 06, 2025
Nationwide Children’s Researchers Awarded Children’s Health Innovation Award By Amazon Web Services for New AI Application
Researchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital have been awarded a 2025 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant: Children’s Health Innovation Award, a funding opportunity designed to accelerate innovation to improve children’s health outcomes with the use of advanced cloud services.
Jul 23, 2025
Nationwide Children's Researchers Work to Transform Approach to Epigenetic Studies in Pediatric Cancer
Researchers from the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital offer a new platform technology and proof of concept that illuminates the role of PAX3::FOXO1, a known gene fusion driving rhabdomyosarcoma.
Jul 14, 2025
New Study Finds Sharp Increase in Nicotine Pouch Ingestions Among Young Children
A new study reveals that ingestions of nicotine pouches by young children have surged in recent years. Our researcher, along the Central Ohio Poison Center experts analyzed calls to U.S. poison centers and found an alarming 763% increase in the rate of reported nicotine pouch ingestions among children younger than 6 years old from 2020 to 2023.
Jun 18, 2025
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Physician Named Editor-In-Chief of Pediatrics
Alex Kemper, MD, division chief of Primary Care Pediatrics at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, has been named editor-in-chief of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), effective in July.
Jun 02, 2025
Alexander Bishop, DPhil, Named Director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Nationwide Children’s Hospital welcomes Alexander Bishop, DPhil, as the director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute (AWRI), effective June 1, 2025. He will also serve as principal investigator in the center, as well as the Richard J. Solove Endowed Professor and Chair in Cancer Clinical Developmental Therapeutics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
May 07, 2025
Study Finds Teens Driving Older Vehicles Have Increased Risk for Fatal Crashes
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens. Newer vehicles and driver assistance technologies show promise in reducing crashes and injury severities. Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital reviewed national fatal crash data (2016-2021) and examined the vehicle age and driver assistance technologies of vehicles driven by teen and middle-aged drivers, and their associations with driver deaths during fatal crashes.
Apr 28, 2025
Medallion for Scientific Achievement Awarded to Nationwide Children’s Physician
The American Surgical Association has awarded Gail Besner, MD, chief of Pediatric Surgery at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, the Medallion for Scientific Achievement, the highest honor bestowed by the association.
Mar 07, 2025
FDA Grants Nationwide Children’s Hospital Researchers Safe-To-Proceed Authorization on First-In-World CAR-NK Cells Made with CRISPR/AAV
Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have received safe-to-proceed approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Universal-Donor CD38KO CD33CAR-NK cells, to be studied in a forthcoming clinical trial. The Phase 1 trial will study the safety of the novel therapy in patients with advanced, high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Mar 04, 2025
Study Finds Youth with Concussion May Benefit from Monitoring Sleep and Limiting Daytime Naps
Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have found that when it comes to concussion recovery, sleep matters. In a study published today in British Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers found that limiting daytime sleep and getting approximately seven hours of sleep each night in the first week after a concussion may speed up recovery.