For greater than 25 years, Leidos has partnered with many Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) facilities and institutes, together with the Nationwide Most cancers Institute, and operates the Frederick Nationwide Laboratory for Most cancers Analysis, the one laboratory centered completely on biomedical analysis.
Our staff of devoted scientists, researchers, and technicians function a novel nationwide useful resource that’s quickly creating new applied sciences to deal with among the most pressing and demanding issues within the biomedical sciences, together with most cancers, ongoing unmet challenges in HIV/AIDS, and threats of rising infectious ailments.
However our staff does greater than groundbreaking work to eradicate illness and make the world more healthy. We additionally put money into assets designed to assist among the most susceptible targets of most cancers: youngsters. Multiple-third of the roughly 1,500 energetic protocols at NIH embrace youngsters. Whereas the NIH takes care of every youngster’s medical wants at its Scientific Middle in Bethesda, Maryland, The Youngsters’s Inn at NIH tends to the kid’s coronary heart, soul, and spirit.
For greater than 20 years, we’ve had the privilege of supporting this mission by volunteer work and monetary sponsorships. This help ensures the youngsters and households have a “place like dwelling” and a variety of actions that give them an opportunity to get pleasure from themselves and the individuals round them—and to really feel a way of belonging and have enjoyable in a secure, caring atmosphere.
We not too long ago served because the platinum sponsor for the Inn’s tenth annual An Night for Hope gala. The occasion raised over $1.8 million to help youngsters, teenagers, and younger adults with uncommon and severe ailments.
Annually we attend, we depart humbled by the facility of this neighborhood. At Leidos, we’re deeply honored to help The Youngsters’s Inn. However for me, this partnership is about greater than sponsorship; it is about connecting with the unbelievable youngsters and households I’ve met alongside the way in which. Their resilience and braveness encourage me on daily basis.
With over 15,000 nights of lodging offered to 730 households in 2023 alone, The Inn continues to be a beacon of hope for households worldwide. The Inn runs fully on donations from corporations and people who imagine in its mission.
In 2023, Leidos contributions offered 191 households the flexibility to take part in essential and doubtlessly life-saving scientific analysis research on the NIH from the consolation of The Inn for 59 nights for free of charge. Our help additionally allowed 24 leisure, instructional, and well being and wellness actions for the households staying on the Inn, akin to a discipline journey to the Air and Area Museum. This tangible affect on the lives of those households is a testomony to the facility of our collective efforts.
Be part of us in making a distinction
The work of The Youngsters’s Inn at NIH is essential for eradicating ailments, easing ache, and offering hope to pediatric sufferers and their caregivers. Collectively, we will proceed to offer a nurturing “Place Like Residence” to households whereas accelerating pediatric analysis on the NIH.
