The Center for Applied Genomics (CAG) is a Center of Emphasis at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia with the primary goals of discovering and translating basic research findings into medical innovations.
Since our founding in 2006, we have grown to become one of the world’s largest genetics research and analytical facilities. We are the lead center at a pediatric hospital to have access to state-of-the-art high-throughput genotyping technology and we are currently researching over 30 active disease projects. We have processed genetic samples from over 100,000 people.
At the Center, our focus is on detecting the genetic causes of some of the most prevalent childhood diseases including (but not limited to) ADHD, asthma, autism, diabetes, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, pediatric cancer, and schizophrenia, all of which are thought to be caused by and involve multiple, interacting genes within the body.
We believe that the pioneering studies performed here will help develop better ways to diagnose diseases in children and spur development of new and better medicines to treat disease in the future.
