ADA-friendly PDF: Pioneering New Therapies for Pediatric Patients

Pioneering New Therapies for Pediatric Patients

A phase 1 clinical trial of a treatment for severe sickle cell disease (SCD) using gene therapy opened at MUSC in 2015. In SCD a mutation in the beta-globin gene causes the normally round and flexible red blood cells to take on a rigid sickle shape that make it difficult for them to pass through small blood vessels.

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