Posts by Dawn
Diamond–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
Read MoreAhwatukee Family Feels Blood Shortage Uncertainty
If you are able to donate blood, please consider saving a life… or three! Those on the receiving end of your selfless gift appreciate and need you. Many of our…
Read MoreAgranulocytosis in Patients with Diamond-Blackfan Anaemia (DBA) Treated with Deferiprone for Post-transfusion Iron Overload: A Retrospective Study of the French DBA Cohort
Transfusional iron overload MUST be properly treated and monitored in all transfusion-dependent patients. While much can be learned from other transfusion-dependent anemias, iron overload in DBA patients has some specific implications…
Read MoreHEATR3 Variants Impair Nuclear Import of uL18 (RPL5) and Drive Diamond-Blackfan Anemia
It’s always exciting to see Diamond Blackfan Anemia research as the topic of the ASH plenary paper in the respected publication, Blood. Congratulations and thank you to our European colleagues…
Read MoreDBA Doctors/Researchers Are “Doing Their DBA Thing”
Some of our favorite DBA doctors/researchers are “doing their DBA thing” today and tomorrow in Sanquin, Amsterdam. After 3 long years, we are ready and eager to resume DBA meetings!…
Read MoreDecoding the Pathogenesis of Diamond–Blackfan Anemia Using Single-cell RNA-seq
This one is for the science lovers out there! We love research. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-022-00389-z.pdf…
Read MoreNon-profit Finds Housing for Patient’s Family
In December, we congratulated Harvey Lodish, Ph.D. when he was awarded The American Society of Hematology’s (ASH) Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. The Diamond Blackfan Anemia…
Read MoreCongratulations, Stuart H. Orkin, MD, recipient of 2022 Canada Gairdner Award!
Congratulations to Stuart H. Orkin, MD, on receiving a 2022 Canada Gairdner Award for 4 decades of pioneering work in blood disorders that’s unraveled molecular mysteries behind how blood cells…
Read MoreRAREis Scholarship Opportunity
Have a dream and looking for a scholarship? The EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases established the #RAREis Scholarship Fund – to enrich the lives of adults living with rare diseases…
Read MoreCongratulations, Vijay Sankaran, M.D. PhD – Recipient of 2022 E. Mead Johnson Award!
Join us as we, once again, congratulate Vijay Sankaran, M.D., PhD! Dr. Sankaran was chosen as the recipient of the 2022 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric…
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