Children’s Research Fund Junior Board
Since 1992, the Children’s Research Fund Junior Board has been passionate about advancing discovery into new and more effective treatments for childhood diseases.
Please welcome our new CRFJB Research Scholar, Dr. Jennifer Hoffmann!
$220,000 two-year-pledge to fund Dr. Jennifer Hoffmann
For the next 2 years, beginning in the Fall of 2022, the CRFJB will be funding Dr. Jennifer Hoffmann’s research to study medications provided to children with mental health conditions in the emergency department. Medications may help some children to better regulate challenging behaviors such as acute agitation, allowing children to participate more meaningfully in their care, such as mental health assessments and brief therapeutic interventions. About half of children who receive medications in the emergency department for acute agitation have autism spectrum disorder or developmental delays. With this award, Dr. Hoffmann will use electronic health record data to study the effectiveness and safety of these medications. She will work to define an optimal outcome of medication treatment, by integrating perspectives of both clinicians and parents. Additionally, she will determine how best to adapt research processes to take into consideration the unique needs of these children. By helping children better engage in their emergency department care, Dr. Hoffmann hopes to improve children’s mental health and overall well-being. Join us in welcoming Dr. Hoffmann to the CRFJB family!
Become a Member
The Children’s Research Fund Junior Board consists of young professionals in the Chicago metropolitan area. If you are interested in becoming a board member of the Children’s Research Fund Junior Board, please contact us at membership@crfjb.org for more information and to be added to the prospective members list. Interviews for new members are conducted every November.
Our Mission
Since 1992, the Children’s Research Fund Junior Board has been passionate about advancing discovery into new and more effective treatments for childhood diseases. The board supports the work of the researchers and physician-scientists of the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
Focused on a result-oriented “translational” model of research, scientists in the Manne Research Institute labs are working to develop better and safer therapies for the almost 200,000 children treated each year at Lurie Children’s. As the Junior Board to the Children’s Research Fund, a primary philanthropic benefactor of the Manne Research Institute, the Children’s Research Fund Junior Board supports investigations in genetics, incurable neuromuscular diseases, epilepsy, and other conditions.
Since its inception, the Children’s Research Fund Junior Board has helped raise over nearly two million dollars for pediatric medical research initiatives conducted at Lurie Children’s and the Manne Research Institute.
