Research
Dr. Iskander Awarded Grant To Expand the DBA Research Group at Imperial College London
Grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with our friends at DBA UK, the Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation (DBAF) proudly awarded a $45,000 grant that will help expand the DBA Research…
Read MoreDr. Sankaran and Dr. Voit Awarded Grant to Evaluate Safety of GATA1 Gene Therapy
Vijay G. Sankaran, M.D., Ph.D. and Richard A. Voit, M.D., Ph.D., have been awarded a $70,000 grant for their project entitled “Assessing preclinical safety of a unified gene therapy cure…
Read MoreProfessor Strouboulis Awarded Grant for GATA1 Research
Professor John Strouboulis, Chair of Molecular Erythropoiesis at King’s College London was awarded $116,573.12 by the Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation with support from Friends of DBA and DBA Canada. The…
Read MoreDBAF grants funding to Dr. Aldeeri and Dr. Yu of Boston Children’s Hospital for genomic sequencing project
The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation, in partnership with Friends of DBA and DBA Canada, is proud to fund $138,408 for the research project of Dr. Timothy Yu and Dr. Abdulrahman…
Read MoreFirst Patient Enrolled in Disc Medicine’s Clinical Trial of Bitopertin in DBA
The NIH-sponsored, Phase 1/2 clinical trial enrolled its first DBA patient recently. Click here to learn more.
Read MoreGrant Awarded to Dr. Cardenas and the Blackwell Lab
We love welcoming researchers who are new to the DBA field to the DBA Community! The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation thanks Dr. Cardenas and the Blackwell Lab for their hard…
Read MoreDr. Flygare To Complete Clinical Sub-Study in DBA Patients Undergoing Clinical Gene Therapy
The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation, in partnership with Friends of DBAF and Diamond Blackfan Anemia Canada, has awarded $70,000 to Johan Flygare, MD, PhD of The Lund Stem Cell Centre…
Read MoreDr. Bhoopalan receives funding for preclinical study of gene therapy for DBA as well as recognition as a recipient of 2023 Scholar Awards
Congratulations to Dr. Senthil Velan Bhoopalan, MBBS, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital! The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation, along with our partners, Friends of DBAF and Diamond Blackfan Anemia Canada,…
Read MoreLab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trial
Blood that has been grown in a laboratory has been put into people in a world-first clinical trial. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63513330.amp
Read MoreDiamond–Blackfan Anaemia With Iron Overload: A Serious Issue
Something to add to your summer reading list is a recently published commentary from our Italian colleagues entitled, “Diamond–Blackfan anaemia with iron overload: A serious issue” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjh.18393
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