Washington, D.C.-based Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital has received $40 million in philanthropic funding to establish a new Pediatric Radiation Oncology Research Center.
The new center will collaborate with institutions including Boston-based Mass General Brigham for Children, Baltimore-based Kennedy Krieger Institute, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital, according to a Nov. 19 news release from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Anita Mahajan, MD, a professor of radiation oncology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minn., has been tapped to lead the center. The center’s research areas will include neurocognitive rehabilitation, radiation-related drug development, proton therapy innovation and expansion of national pediatric brain tumor data registries.
The center will operate out of the existing Johns Hopkins Proton Therapy Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital, the release said.
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