Working Locally, Healing Globally
About Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI)

CHORI, the research branch of Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland, is among the top 10 percent of pediatric research in the nation for NIH funding. With a working budget of over $40 million a year from both private and public sources, CHORI supports over 200 researchers and clinicians in state-of-the-art laboratory space. The ‘bench to bedside’ research they conduct stretches the boundaries of scientific inquiry and impacts health and wellness across the globe. Within CHORI’s six renowned Research Centers, CHORI investigators probe all aspects of health and wellness, including asthma, birth defects, cancer, cardiac disease prevention, childhood obesity and diabetes, iron metabolism, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell anemia, and mechanisms of immunity and bacterial proliferation. Working locally, healing globally, CHORI has taken translational research to new levels of success. But don’t take our word for it: discover for yourself all that CHORI has to offer.

The world's most comprehensive sickle cell disease and thalassemia center. A meningococcal vaccine for sub-Saharan Africa. The world's only non-profit sibling donor cord blood program. The 1st cure of alpha thalassemia major in North America.