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Children's Hematology/Oncology program, among the oldest in the country, was founded in the early 1930s by Drs. Louis K. Diamond and Sidney Farber. Diamond also founded one of the first pediatric hematology research centers in the United States and established the Blood Grouping Laboratory (now the Center for Blood Research) in 1942.
Today, Children's Hospital Boston is known around the world for its faculty's pediatric hematology/oncology expertise. Its Division of Hematology/Oncology has over 50 full-time researchers and physicians and the goal of improving the understanding and treatment of all forms of childhood cancer and non-malignant blood disorders. The faculty has more than $30 million per year in research grant support, which exceeds nearly all departments of pediatrics in the U.S. Its comprehensive fellowship program is an educational leader; approximately 40 percent of the Hematology/Oncology Division Chiefs in the U.S. were trained through the program.
Children's has one of the oldest and most active largest pediatric stem cell transplantation units in the country, established in the 1970s. Offered through Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Care, the program performs more than 70 transplants each year for children with blood disorders and cancer. Children receiving stem cell transplants are admitted to the 13-bed stem cell transplantation unit at Children's. Children's is also the pediatric site of the Boston Hemophilia Center, the largest hemophilia program in New England.
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