The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation is proud to support the research of Dr. Shai Izraeli, Professor in the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry at Tel Aviv University and the Head of the Childhood Leukemia Research Institute within the Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and the Cancer Research Center at Sheba Medical Center, Israel. The DBAF provided a $32,000 grant Continue Reading »Posted in: Misc, News, Research, Spotlight Stories
ANNOUNCEMENT: “DBA: Building Global Bridges”: An interdisciplinary symposium to facilitate networking between clinicians, scientists, and patients worldwide. An international meeting on Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA), a rare inherited blood disease will take place at the Division of Pediatrics, University of Freiburg in Germany, on September 19-20, 2014. “DBA: Building Global Bridges” is an interdisciplinary symposium established under the umbrella of the ERARE-funded Continue Reading »Posted in: Misc, News, Spotlight Stories, Upcoming Events
The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation (DBAF), in partnership with DBA Canada (DBAC), is proud to provide a $25,000 grant to Dr. David Bodine for his project, Assay Development and Preliminary Screening of Small Molecules to Increase Ribosomal Protein Levels. David Bodine, PhD, Senior Investigator and Chief, Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch Head, Hematopoiesis Section of the National Human Genome Research Institute explained, “The vast Continue Reading »Posted in: News, Research
Congress has again made funds available to the Department of Defense (DOD) for the Bone Marrow Failure Research Program (BMFRP). The DOD, in turn, is making funds available to scientists around the world with the vision of understanding and curing bone marrow failure diseases. Researchers apply to DOD for support of their research and for research training by submitting an Continue Reading »Posted in: Families in the News, News, Spotlight Stories
In April 2014 when the DBAF awarded Dr. Harvey Lodish $21,281, the intent was to fill a gap for a few months until Dr. Lodish received government money. Unfortunately, Dr. Lodish was notified that the Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center program had been reorganized and discontinued due to lack of available funding from Congress, leaving him with no funds to Continue Reading »Posted in: News, Research, Spotlight Stories
The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation is proud to support the very important work of Vijay G. Sankaran, M.D., Ph.D. of Boston Children’s Hospital. The DBAF has provided $36,000 to fund Dr. Sankaran’s research project entitled, Defining GATA1 Transcriptional Alterations in Diamond-Blackfan Anemia. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. Sankaran is an outstanding investigator and was a leader in the Continue Reading »Posted in: Misc, News, Research, Spotlight Stories
The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation is pleased to announce the funding of another exciting research project. A grant for $35,000 was awarded to Daniel Finley, Ph.D. for his project entitled, “A new mode of ribosome regulation specific to reticulocytes.” Dr. Daniel Finley, a well-established investigator and a professor at Harvard University, is new to the DBA field. He will be Continue Reading »Posted in: Misc, News, Research
The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation (DBAF) is proud to announce the funding of another important research project. Through the dedication, hard work, and generosity of our families, friends, and supporters, the DBAF was able to award $21,281 to Dr. Harvey Lodish’s project entitled, “High-throughput screening identifies many novel potential therapies for Diamond Blackfan Anemia.” The esteemed Dr. Lodish provided the Continue Reading »Posted in: News, Research, Spotlight Stories
The 13th Diamond Blackfan Anemia International Consensus Conference was held March 8th through the 10th at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. This year’s conference saw a record number of abstracts accepted for presentation as either short talks or posters. This increased number of abstracts submitted relative to previous years, in part, reflects an increasing number of investigators entering Continue Reading »Posted in: ICC, News, Research, Spotlight Stories
The Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation is proud to partner with DBA Canada to fund a novel gene therapy research proposal from Dr. Johnson Liu, MD at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research. The $48,210 project is titled, “Repairing Dominant Negative Mutation of RPS19 Gene by Spliceosome-Mediated RNA Trans-Splicing.” This approach takes advantage of the fact that human genes are made Continue Reading »Posted in: News, Research, Spotlight Stories
I am here. I am in the present tense. I’m not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It’s hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it’s something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it. -Meg Howrey
We are hopeful that a cure will be discovered soon so that our son doesn’t have to endure pokes and disruptions and can feel good all the time – isn’t that what every child deserves?
Living with DBA is the hardest, yet most fulfilling, aspect of our lives. Audrey is the absolute love of our lives and we are thankful everyday for her.
