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Mental Health and Sickle Cell Disease: CureSCi Resources and Webinars
May 3, 2024
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Learn about SCD and what a cure looks like.
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FDA approval of SCD gene therapies: Q&A with NHLBI leadership
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Additional COVID-19 information for the SCD community, clinicians, and researchers
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ASH Interviews Dr. Edward Benz on the Cure Sickle Cell Initiative
Dec-19
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At 16, She’s a Pioneer in the Fight to Cure Sickle Cell Disease
11-Jan-20
New York Times
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CIRM-Funded Clinical Trial for Sickle Cell Gives Hope to People Battling the Disease
18-Nov-20
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Column: For a man long afflicted with an illness made riskier by COVID-19, hope for the holidays
29-Nov-20
Los Angeles Times
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CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Present New Data for Investigational CRISPR/Cas9 Gene-Editing Therapy, CTX001™ at ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, Together With Publication in the NEJM
5-Dec-20
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FDA Announces Release of Guidances in Support of Gene Therapy
28-Jan-20
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Gene therapy trial featured in PBS documentary
14-Apr-20
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Second Congressional Briefing Held on Sickle Cell Disease
19-Nov-19
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Summary of the 2019 CureSCi Annual Forum
21-Nov-19
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UCLA researcher receives NIH grant to develop a more affordable gene therapy for sickle cell disease
16-Dec-20