At the invitation of the White House, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) sent two special guests to President Barack Obama’s announcement today of the Precision Medicine Initiative: Dr. Steven M. Altschuler, CHOP’s chief executive officer, and 9-year-old patient Emily Whitehead, now cancer-free thanks to a personalized treatment called T cell therapy, developed at CHOP. …read more

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