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FSCDR’s Experience With Voxelotor (Gbt440) Treatment in Patients With Severe Sickle Cell Disease Aug 28th, 2019

ATLANTA — Lanetta Bronté, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.P.H., founder and chief health officer of the Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research (FSCDR) in Hollywood, Fla., presented results from seven adult sickle cell disease patients with severe anemia and multiple co-morbidities who were not eligible to participate in Global Blood Therapeutics’s (GBT)...

Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research Joins New Sickle Cell Disease Coalition Aug 28th, 2019

Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research Joins New Sickle Cell Disease Coalition, Issues Call to Action to Improve Treatment and Care Sickle Cell Disease Coalition launches a call to action on disease that has been neglected for far too long (WASHINGTON, September 12, 2016) — Today, FSCDR joins other leading patient...

FSCDR Receives Land Parcel to Build First Sickle Cell Hospital in Miami-dade County Aug 28th, 2019

MIAMI — On Tuesday the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners Meeting passed Resolution 14A2, declaring surplus county-owned land and approving a lease for Florida Sickle Inc. (d/b/a/ Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research). The Resolution is sponsored by Commissioner Audrey M. Edmonson and co-sponsored by Commissioners Daniella Levine Cava and...