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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Announces 5th Round of Peach Bowl LegACy Fund Awardees
ATLANTA (August 6, 2025) – Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta is pleased to announce four new research projects to be headed by pediatric hematologists and oncologists at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center aimed at targeting childhood cancers, including brain tumors, osteosarcoma and leukemia. Funding was provided by Peach Bowl, Inc. and the Peach Bowl LegACy Fund, which was established in 2019 as a $20 million commitment that is hyper-focused on funding clinical trials for the most challenging
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Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University Lead National Trial Aiming to Improve Survival
ATLANTA (July 24, 2025) – Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University are leading a national multi-site trial to determine the best threshold for platelet transfusions in extremely preterm infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Arthur M. Blank Hospital. These babies generally have the highest incidence of abnormally low platelets in the blood and bleeding, as well as the highest mortality among all babies admitted to the NICU. Led by Ravi Patel, MD, MSc, Director of
