🚨Hot off the press 👉🏼HUGE MILESTONE in all of #MEDICINE & huge win for patients & families with sickle cell disease & β-Thalassemia
👉🏼TODAY Two back to back papers published with an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine @NEJM on the First Gene Therapies to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease & β-Thalassemia.
⭐️Meet Dr. Haydar Frangoul, Director of Stem Cell Transplant, Sarah Cannon Research Institute @SarahCannonDocs The Children's Hospital at Tristar Centennial, Nashville, TN who spearheaded the CRISPR-Cas9 clinical trials
⭐️ Meet Mike @computermiked@SarahCannonDocs ! Thanks to real life super heroes like Mike for enrolling & volunteering in the #CRISPR gene therapy clinical trial for sickle cell disease 👉🏼FDA approved this ground breaking gene therapy.
‼️This is the WHY we do what we do - to make life-changing breakthroughs possible‼️
@BldCancerDoc
@ASH_hematology@OncoAlert@oncodaily@OncLive@statnews@IshwariaMD@DrBattiwalla@BurrisSkip
Link to FDA approval: https://t.co/DUo6yMmHDG
Link to initial NEJM papers:
https://t.co/W7Hg11xZ5v
https://t.co/b6H3ixTb2q
Link to an amazing patient story: https://t.co/L8MaqPCb7F
#Sicklecell #PrecisionMedicine for the win 🧬🎯
HCA Healthcare patient Jimi is giving hope to those living with #SickleCellDisease by participating in an innovative clinical trial with @SarahCannonDocs exploring the use of #CRISPR gene editing. Learn about its potential impact in @washingtonpost: https://t.co/LAm5Qskrvl.
So proud to know @computermiked and his amazing mom. Their journey is so inspiring. I DO miss him handling all our tech issues since he moved to this new job, though!!! Seriously…I’m so excited for you Mike.
Breaking News: The first treatment to use CRISPR gene editing, a potential cure for sickle cell disease, moved closer to FDA approval. https://t.co/fMIdumoNfl
On this 1-yr anniversary of our SCRI-US Oncology research partnership, a story👇on our Why!
I’ll never forget meeting Michael Davis.
Him: Doc, wanna hear my #SarahCannon story?
Me: Of course!
Him: I had sickle cell.
Me: Had?
(He broke out a smile, not an everyday one — this smile was something more. I knew I was about to hear something special. Enter the anticipatory chills and goosebumps.)
Him: So, I’m living in Mississippi, with sickle cell. And it’s not going good.
Him: My mom kept calling place after place near us, trying to find a #clinicaltrial that’ll take me.
But there was nothing.
Him: One day, I’m in a waiting room…. I look around and see an @NPR magazine out the corner of my eye.
Him: I picked it up, flipped it open and landed on a page. “Sarah Cannon Research Institute,” I remember thinking. “I wonder if they have a trial for me….”
“Naaah.” I set the magazine right back down.
Him: But, a minute later, my head was turning, looking back at it. And, Doc, for some reason, I picked it back up. “Maybe Sarah Cannon *does* have a trial for me.”
So, my mom called. She told them about me, gave them the info they needed.
Three months later, I got the call — *the* call — that I’m in! #SCRI had a spot for me on their #sicklecell #CRISPR trial.
Him: Doc, that moment! When that call came. The way my mom and I felt… I can’t even begin to describe it to you.
Him: Now, here I am, two years later.
Doc…… I’m cured.
(Chills all over, again)
Him (still smiling): I’m cured.
And I owe it to this place.
After something like that, you know I’m like ‘I gotta work here!’
👏👏👏💯💯💯
Meet Mr. Michael Davis — our @SarahCannonDocs IT support guru, my new friend, and the embodiment of our #SCRI/#USON mission. He is why we do what we do!
Happy 1st anniversary to the SCRI-@TheUSONetwork Research partnership!
My first campaign ad, ‘37 Seconds.’ #JustLikeMe
I hope this ad works to not only destigmatize the use of marijuana, but also forces a new conversation that creates the pathway to legalize this beneficial drug, and forgive those who were arrested due to outdated ideology.
Mississippi governor sets “ONE-TIME” $1K bonuses for state law officers. Shout to One time for the ONE TIME!! No really they can’t be serious!! #Newsbreak#Mississippi#tatereevescrazy https://t.co/AmLjLlGp1K