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MEDIA RELEASE PR37584


Oncologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to Chair International Childhood Cancer Organization


PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --


              Will Lead Children's Oncology Group -- Collaborative

                      Organization in Pediatric Cancer


    Peter C. Adamson, M.D., a pediatric oncologist and leading scientist at

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, has been selected

to lead the Children's Oncology Group (COG) in its efforts to find cures for

children with cancer.


    An internationally recognized leader in pediatric cancer drug

development, Dr. Adamson will assume his new role with COG on Jan. 1, 2010.

He was elected by principal investigators of more than 200 COG sites. COG

unites more than 5,000 experts in childhood cancer at leading children's

hospitals, universities, and cancer centers across North America, Australia,

New Zealand, and Europe in the fight against childhood cancer.


    Dr. Adamson, who came to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1999

from the National Cancer Institute, is the director of Clinical and

Translational Research and chief of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and

Therapeutics at Children's Hospital. He also is a professor of Pediatrics and

Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He will

remain on the staff of Children's Hospital and on the Penn faculty while

serving as COG chair.


    Emerging research shows that even the more common childhood cancers are

actually a mix of different diseases, each potentially requiring a different

specific therapy. Creating such disease-targeted therapies for children with

cancer requires a better pathway for moving from the bench to the bedside,

which Dr. Adamson will lead through expanding COG's role at Children's

Hospital and fostering new and enhanced collaborations with COG sites

throughout the world.


    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the

nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to

providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric

healthcare professionals and pioneering major research initiatives,

Children's Hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited



    The Cancer Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's large

basic and clinical research programs are particularly strong in pediatric

neuro-oncology, neuroblastoma, leukemia and lymphoma, and sarcomas.

Physicians at Children's Hospital have had pioneering roles in developing

international standards for diagnosing and treating neuroblastoma, and in

developing programs for survivors of childhood cancer.


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    Contact: Rachel Salis-Silverman, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,

Salis@email.chop.edu


    SOURCE: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


    CONTACT: Rachel Salis-Silverman 

             of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 

             +1-267-426-6063, 

             Salis@email.chop.edu



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