Children's National awarded Doris Duke Charitable Foundation grant for sickle cell disease

(Children's National Health System) Children's National Health System will receive more than $550,000 in funding to lead a three-year, multi-center trial that will study a low intensity, chemotherapy-free transplantation approach to cure patients with sickle cell disease using a matched related donor. The grant was awarded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's inaugural Sickle Cell Disease/Advancing Cures Awards, which provides funding to advance curative approaches for sickle cell disease.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news