PHOENIX, Dec. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Today, a dream team of pediatric physician scientists will share how they will take genomics research out of the lab and into clinical practice. At a new molecular medicine institute in Phoenix, these doctors will have real-time access to drug therapies that could help arrest cancer and other life-threatening diseases in children.

This is the first time immediate drug therapies will be available to pediatric patients for whom no other treatment options exist.

The team includes leading physician scientists from Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins along with researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and University of Arizona's College of Medicine.

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What:

Announcement of how a pediatric medical research institute led by an internationally respected team of physician scientists will put molecular medicine into clinical practice immediately with real-time access to drug therapies

Who:

Phoenix Children's Hospital, in collaboration with Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix

When:

3:30 p.m, EST, 2:30 p.m. CST, 1:30 p.m. MST, 12:30 p.m. PST Dec. 4, 2012

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