Children's Mercy Research Institute Grand Opening Celebration
The virtual grand opening of the Children’s Mercy Research Institute® (CMRI) is a celebration of the success of the community rallying together to “Discover Cures and Transform Care” for kids. The celebration includes inspiring patient stories, Big Slick celebrity appearances, a look inside the CMRI and a special “lighting of the building” moment, which unveils actual DNA patterns of children diagnosed at Children’s Mercy Kansas City.
The CMRI would not be possible without the generosity of the community. In 2018, the Hall Family Foundation and the Sunderland Foundation each donated $75 million to kickstart the construction of the new research building and the recruitment of top researchers. The combined $150 million donation is the largest one-time gift ever made to a children’s hospital for pediatric research. Since then, hundreds of donors and advocates to-date have joined their generosity and made this research investment a reality.
About the Children’s Mercy Research Institute:
The CMRI is a nine-story, 375,000 square-foot, pediatric research facility located on the hospital’s Adele Hall campus in the heart of downtown Kansas City. The new building is home to the CMRI, which was established in 2015 to accelerate precise diagnoses and treatments for complex childhood diseases and move kids to the forefront of research discoveries.
What makes the CMRI unique is the translational approach to research. The CMRI fosters an integrated research environment where no boundaries exist between science and medicine - uniting physicians, scientists, academic colleagues and community partners working together to translate ideas and discoveries into new medicines, treatments and diagnostics.
As CMRI rapidly emerges as a leader in pediatric translational research, it has established the following Areas of Emphasis: Genomic Medicine, Precision Therapeutics, Population Health and Health Care Innovation.
One of the initial flagship research projects of the CMRI is Genomic Answers for Kids (GA4K) – a first-of-its-kind pediatric data repository that is collecting genomic data and health information from 30,000 children and their families over the next seven years, to create a database of 100,000 genomes.
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Learn more about the Children’s Mercy Research Institute: http://childrensmercy.org/research.
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