17th Annual PANDA Fashion Show & Luncheon

The 17^th Annual “Children Helping Children” Fashion Show and Luncheon will be held this Saturday and feature 55 child models, a live and silent auction, and raffle. This event is being put on by the Phoenix Women’s Board of the Steele Children’s Research Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.

To raise funds for the PANDA (People Acting Now Discover Answers) Personalized Pediatric Medicine Project and endowment. The goal of the PANDA Personalized Pediatric Medicine Project is to conduct pilot studies and establish an integrated system for personalized medical approaches to treat children suffering from complex diseases. A customized treatment approach will enable researchers to identify markers in a child’s genetic sequence that influence why certain treatments work and others fail.  This individualized system will enable physicians to accurately predict a child’s response, resistance, or adverse reaction to a particular treatment option.