Colin's Kids - Congenital Heart Defects

24/04/2025

HOPKINTON High School Lacrosse Team, teams up with Colin’s Kids to make 25 blankets.

02/12/2024

Can you imagine the difference raising $10,000 for congenital heart defects could make? I can. That money could fund research for a junior faculty member AND multiple fellows at Columbia University Medical Center. And all it takes is simply getting 100 people to donate $100 or more to Colin’s Kids this holiday season.

But there’s no way to do this without your support. On this Giving Tuesday, I encourage you to open your own hearts to those in need.

Your donation is critical to helping Colin’s Kids fund medical research related to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of congenital heart defects (CHDs) and financially support the families of babies born with CHDs at a time when they need help the most.

Clinical trials, new technology, and the unwavering dedication of heart specialists are producing important advances every day. But further progress is needed that can only be made through the life-saving research that Colin’s Kids is committed to supporting.

You can make a donation in any one of the following ways:
1. Click the Donate Now button below
2. Visit our website at www.colinskids.org
3. Mail a check to: Colin’s Kids, PO Box 93, Hopewell, NJ 08525

My sincere thanks and best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!

With gratitude,
Andrew King

Colin’s Kids is a non-profit, section 501 (c)(3) foundation

02/12/2024

Great visit to Columbia last week. We delivered 50 blankets to children in the NICU, PICU and pediatric cardiac floor. Ane, we awarded research grants to one junior faculty and three fellows in at Columbia University Medical Center.

25/11/2024

Colin’s Kids Club members, Andrew and Kayla packed up 50 hand tied fleece blankets to deliver to Columbia University Hospital's PICU, NICU and pediatric cardiologly floors for Thanksgiving. Thank you to all the students who help create these cozy blankets!

26/10/2023

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Seth Rippentrop and Tate Lewis, who were both diagnosed in utero with hypoplastic left heart syndrome before they were born weeks apart in 2002, are roommate...

24/02/2023

The Grey’s Anatomy mid-season premier featured a partial heart transplant – a procedure pioneered at Duke Health by an innovative team at Duke Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center! To date only two such procedures have been performed -- both at Duke Children’s Hospital. Baby Owen Monroe (pictured left) was the first person in the world to receive the procedure and little Kix Soderblom (pictured right) became the second.

Grey’s Anatomy reached out to Dr. Joseph Turek as a consultant on the program to help with the medical accuracy of the procedure. Efforts are now underway to bring this innovation to other medical centers and expand access to lifesaving procedures.

Read more about the Duke Pediatric & Congenital Heart Center:
https://www.dukehealth.org/pediatric-treatments/pediatric-cardiology

Read more about Dr. Turek:
https://scholars.duke.edu/person/joseph.turek

| Duke Pediatric & Congenital Heart Center | Duke Surgery | Duke Children's | Duke Anesthesiology | | | Duke University Hospital |

01/12/2022

We are grateful for the Colin’s Kids Club at The Lawrenceville School!

On Sunday, November 13, Colin’s Kids Club hosted its first blanket making event in the Bunn Library. Students enjoyed cookies and music while creating making fleece blankets to donate to pediatric heart patients. Colin’s Kids is a nonprofit that provides funding to advance medical research related to congenital heart disease (CHD) as well as financial and other support services to families of children born with this birth defect. It was co-founded in 2010 by the families of Colin Molloy and Andrew King, boys born with CHD. Sadly, Colin passed away after only 47 days. Andrew, thankfully, is the happy, healthy little brother to Carolyn ’20, Connor ’22, and Chris ‘24, now dedicated to helping others with CHD. They have also donated thousands of blankets to patients at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center in New York City – home to the NICU where Colin and Andrew were born. Read more here: http://colinskids.weebly.com/

08/11/2021

We are so grateful to the students at The Lawrenceville School for making blankets again for Colin's Kids. A special thanks to Connor King and Kate McCann leading the charge.

01/01/2021

Imagine getting the news that the baby you have waited for with such hopeful anticipation has a congenital heart defect. And while you know your baby will receive the best possible care from a team of dedicated doctors and nurses, the stress of knowing your tiny baby will have to undergo open hea...

05/06/2020

Congrats to Dr. Andrew McCrary, Dr. Jordan Ezekian, and Dr. Sarah Goldstein at Duke Children's - recently awarded the Andrew King and Colin Molloy research grants respectively. Dr. McCrary's research is advancing the diagnostic utility of echocardiography in heart function assessment, Dr. Ezekian is analyzing genomic data of families with congenital heart disease and Dr. Goldstein in developing a novel risk prediction tool for women with congenital heart disease who are considering pregnancy. Colin's Kids is proud to support these research projects focusing on congenital heart defects.

Two members of the Department of Pediatrics and one member of the Department of Medicine have rec

01/03/2020

Recently, at gathered to make blankets for Colin’s Kids! Andrew’s older brother Connor is a member of the house. Thank you Woodhull for supporting children recovering from open heart surgery and their families. @ The Lawrenceville School