Overview
- Don and Anne Edwards’ donation establishes the Edwards Family Division of Genetics and Rare Diseases at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
- Dr. Carlos Prada leads the new division and described the investment as transformational for patients with rare conditions.
- The hospital will expand pediatric genetics training to build the state’s largest program, addressing an Illinois shortage of roughly one geneticist per million residents.
- More diagnostic testing will be performed at Lurie to cut result times from more than three months to fewer than two weeks.
- Lurie plans to roughly triple gene therapy and clinical research trials within three to five years, targeting about 75 active trials by 2030.