{"id":1671,"date":"2021-02-08T12:14:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2021-02-08T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:14:04","slug":"12-sickle-cell-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"#12….Sickle Cell Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Progress in the fight against Sickle Cell\u00a0Disease<\/a><\/h2>\n

by Kevin McCormack<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Last November Marissa Cors,<\/a> a patient advocate in the fight against Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), told the Stem Cellar \u201cA stem cell cure will end generations of guilt, suffering, pain and early death. It will give SCD families relief from the financial, emotional and spiritual burden of caring someone living with SCD. It will give all of us an opportunity to have a normal life. Go to school, go to work, live with confidence.\u201d With each passing month it seems we are getting closer to that day.<\/p>\n

CIRM is funding four clinical trials targeting SCD<\/a> and another project we are supporting has just been given the green light by the Food and Drug Administration to start a clinical trial. Clearly progress is being made.<\/p>\n

Yesterday we got a chance to see that progress. We held a Zoom event featuring Marissa Cors and other key figures in the fight against SCD, CIRM Science Officer Dr. Ingrid Caras and Evie Junior. Evie is a pioneer in this struggle, having lived with sickle cell all his life but now hoping to live his life free of the disease. He is five months past a treatment that holds out the hope of eradicating the distorted blood cells that cause such devastation to people with the disease.<\/p>\n

You can listen to his story, and hear about the other progress being made. Here’s a recording of the Zoom event.<\/p>\n

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Kevin McCormack<\/a><\/strong> | January 20, 2021 at 11:57 am | Tags: CRISPR<\/a>, Don Kohn<\/a>, Dr. Ingrid Caras<\/a>, Evie Junior<\/a>, FDA<\/a>, Gene editing<\/a>, Marissa Cors<\/a>, Matt Porteus<\/a>, Sickle cell disease<\/a>, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center<\/a> | Categories: Ask the Expert<\/a>, Blood stem cells<\/a>, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine<\/a>, CIRM funded research<\/a>, Clinical Trials<\/a>, CRISPR<\/a>, Food and Drug Administration<\/a>, Gene editing<\/a>, Month of CIRM<\/a>, Month of CIRM<\/a>, Patient Advocacy<\/a>, Patient Advocate event<\/a>, Sickle cell disease<\/a>, Stanford University<\/a>, Stem cell research<\/a>, UC Los Angeles<\/a> | URL: https:\/\/wp.me\/p4BBpx-4Is<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New post on The Stem Cellar Progress in the fight against Sickle Cell\u00a0Disease by Kevin McCormack Last November Marissa Cors, a patient advocate in the fight against Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), told the Stem Cellar \u201cA stem cell cure will … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mydiabeticsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}