On May 11, 2024 PANDA shined with 1,200+ guests with a “Here Comes the Sun” Fashion Show at the Phoenix Biltmore. The day included PANDA’s marquee Children’s Fashion Show and funded PANDA’s “The Deep Freeze” Project. Funds raised brought a first-of-its-kind pediatric biobank to the Steele Children’s Research Center and expanded research into six autoimmune diseases being diagnosed more and more frequently in children. The biobank technology allows for long-term storage of samples for testing and research use and minimizes the need for numerous sample collections from sick children.

On May 7, 2022 PANDA took 1,200 guests ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess. The day included PANDA’s marquee Children’s Fashion Show and raised $4.1 million to fund the PANDA Children’s Genome Sequencing Project, which included the purchase of the NovaSeq 6000, a state-of the-art rapid whole genome sequencing machine.