Children's National Research Institute

Children’s National Research Institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment and care of childhood diseases.

Healthcare Education and Training

The Office of Medical Education is responsible for providing an organized education program for residents and fellows to ensure safe and appropriate care for patients.

JLABS @ Washington, DC

Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Children's are launching a new chapter in research and innovation. This facility is critical to accelerating potential discoveries into new treatments.

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Residencies and Fellowships

The Office of Medical Education is responsible for providing an organized education program for residents and fellows to ensure safe and appropriate care for patients.

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Johnson & Johnson Innovation and Children's are launching a new chapter in research and innovation. This facility is critical to accelerating potential discoveries into new treatments.

Our Centers and Institutes

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Cancer and Immunology Research

We drive groundbreaking basic and clinical research to benefit children with cancer, infection and immune-related disorders.

Genetic Medicine Research

We strive to transform children’s health through genome-enabled research, pre-clinical studies of experimental therapeutics, and clinical trials. We use this knowledge to restore health and prevent illness in childhood and throughout life.

Neuroscience Research

Our vision is to understand the development of the central nervous system and the cellular, molecular, synaptic and network mechanisms of brain dysfunction to prevent or treat neurological, developmental and behavioral disorders of childhood.

Translational Research

We work to improve the prevention and treatment of childhood diseases through scientific discoveries into preventative and therapeutic applications that address disease processes and disease-related issues.

Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation

Clinical and Translational Science Institute

The CTSI-CN is a partnership between Children’s National Hospital and The George Washington University that offers unique resources in translating discovery to improved health.

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Research News

The latest and greatest in pediatric research and clinical innovations from Children’s National:

Predicting risk for infantile spasms after acute symptomatic neonatal seizures

New grant to assess screening tools for cystic fibrosis-related diabetes

Children’s National to test bionic pancreas

Roger Packer, M.D., presents keynote address at First International Pakistan Neuro-Oncology Symposium

Research campus provides opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators

Services and Support

Children’s Research Institute provides a centralized administrative infrastructure to support the research community and to ensure compliance with federal, local, and private sponsor regulations as well as terms and conditions.

Latest News

Children’s National Hospital unveils top artificial intelligence models in COVID-19 Grand Challenge to improve lung diagnostics

The top 10 results have been unveiled in the first-of-its-kind COVID-19 Lung CT Lesion Segmentation Grand Challenge, a groundbreaking research competition focused on developing AI models to help in the visualization and measurement of COVID specific lesions in the lungs of infected patients, potentially facilitating to more timely and patient-specific medical interventions.