The Center for Pediatric Early-Phase Trials serves as a resource to investigators, including helping to navigate (in partnership with the Center for Pediatric Clinical Research Training, Education and Engagement) investigators through review and approval processes and engaging the expertise of cores and shared resources in order to enhance efficiency and quality of early-phase trial planning and execution.
The Center also serves as the home of faculty expertise for early-phase pediatric clinical trial design and conduct, providing consultation and mentorship and enabling collaboration and knowledge-sharing. The Center fosters collaboration among Johns Hopkins All Children’s clinical and laboratory investigators, and with external collaborators, to perform PK/PD analyses and to plan and execute investigations of biologic correlates as part of phase 1 and 2 clinical trial designs.
Meet Our Team
Instructor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Member, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute
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Associate Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Epidemiologist, Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Health Informatics; Member, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute
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Associate Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore-based)
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External adviser and collaborating investigator
Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine; Director, Duke Clinical Research Unit and Pharmacometrics Unit, Duke Clinical Research Institute
External adviser and collaborating investigator
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine; Director, Developmental Therapeutics, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Christy Fernald, R.N., B.S.N.
Manager, Clinical Research Unit, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Neonatologist, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Institute
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Associate Dean for Research at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director of the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
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Collin Hovinga, Pharm.D.
External adviser and collaborating investigator
Senior Vice President, Clinical and Scientific Development, Institute for Advanced Clinical Trials (I-ACT) for Children; Clinical Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin; Former Member, FDA Peripheral and Central Nervous System Advisory Committee
Manager, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Investigational Drug Services Unit
Assistant Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Chief of Bone/Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute
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Assistant Professor, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine; Associate Member, Sarcoma Department, Moffitt Cancer Center
Daniel Schaufelberger, Ph.D.,
External adviser and collaborating investigator
Former Scientific Director, Pharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing Sciences, Pediatric Center of Excellence, Janssen R&D
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