Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Research

Striving to prevent and cure diseases to make the lives of all children better.

Explore our interactive clinical research lifecycle for specific information and resources available within each stage.

Who gets sick and who doesn’t? Why do some apparently healthy children develop serious diseases later in life while others do not? These questions propel the work we do to heal and prevent disease in children now and throughout their lifetimes. We are making significant investments in research—including scientists, laboratories and sample preservation—to answer those questions with the goal of eradicating diseases that are common today.

Our mission is to bring important research to all areas of pediatric medicine beginning at the basic science level with the Institute for Fundamental Biomedical Research and continuing through our Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.

By discovering new information about the origins of disease, developing evidence-based therapies and providing patients and clinical researchers with access to innovative research opportunities, we are able to practice precision medicine that advances the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of pediatric-onset diseases.


Research Institutes

Cores & Shared Resources

Our Cores, Shared Resources & Support Offices provide wide-ranging support for researchers on today’s studies that will lead to tomorrow’s advancements in pediatric medicine.
  • Pediatric Biorepository & Tissue-Based Diagnosis and Research Core

    The Johns Hopkins All Children’s Pediatric Biorepository and Tissue-Based Diagnosis and Research Core supports both local and national/international research in child health and disease by processing, cryopreserving and storing blood, tissue and other specimens collected on institutionally-approved research studies for archival and hypothesis-driven research. The Johns Hopkins All Children’s Biorepository, which is accredited by the College of American Pathologists, provides not only local biorepository services at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, but also central biorepository services for multicenter studies. The Biorepository provides consultation in pediatric biospecimen science, promotes sample networks and enhances multicenter and multidisciplinary research collaborations in child health and disease. 

  • Clinical/Translational Cores, Shared Resources and Support Offices

    Johns Hopkins All Children’s features an array of research cores, shared resources and support offices designed to provide clinical/translational investigators campus-wide access to research tools, technologies, consultation and services, optimizing the quality and efficiency of clinical/translational research.

  • Department of Research & Grants Administration

    The Department of Research & Grants Administration provides grants and contract support services for those seeking funding for new research studies as well as those currently conducting funded research. Services include identifying funding opportunities, budget development, proposal development assistance, confidentiality agreement development/processing, contract negotiation, materials and/or data transfer agreement development/processing and post-award administration.

  • Institutional Review Board

    The Johns Hopkins All Children's Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversees all research involving human subjects conducted by Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital staff and employees, regardless of the location of the research or its source of financial support. The Johns Hopkins All Children’s IRB is one of seven Johns Hopkins Medicine IRBs, which it joined in 2013.

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