Cell Discovery Network

To drive transformative cures for pediatric disease by listening carefully to each cell in every child.

We advance single-cell science by making it accessible and empowering fellow scientists to dive into their data one cell at a time — at Boston Children's Hospital and beyond.

Office Hours

Drop in for single-cell science Q&A, workflow help, and community support. Events are updated live on our public calendar.

Workshops & Teaching Resources

Hands-on guides for scRNA-seq, multiome analysis, and single-cell workflows — built by the CDN community and shared openly on GitHub.

Workshops

Multi-session courses with slides, code, and walkthroughs.

Browse workshops →

Educational Material

Short guides on objects, tools, and core concepts.

Teaching resources →

Videos

Recorded workshop sessions from the BCH / CDN playlist.

Watch on YouTube →

GitHub

Source repos for all CDN teaching content.

workshops repo →

Workshop videos

Catch up on past sessions — scRNA-seq workflows, multiome analysis, and more. Full playlist on YouTube.

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Researcher Spotlight

Stories from the CDN community — methods, people, and discoveries.

All spotlight posts

Accelerator Grants

The Cell Discovery Network Accelerator Grant program at Boston Children's Hospital builds a community of researchers using single-cell approaches to understand principles governing pediatric tissue biology in health and disease.

Funding

Support for single-cell research at BCH

Grants help teams launch or expand single-cell projects, connect with CDN expertise, and share reproducible workflows with the broader community.

Contact Us

Contact & Team

A collaborative network at Boston Children's Hospital.

About the CDN

Our activities focus on teaching, enabling, and sharing analytical knowledge in single-cell science with the BCH community and beyond — with respect for pediatric participants and their families.

We promote open, reproducible single-cell research using FAIR principles.

Get in touch

Join our team inquiries welcome — reach out by email.