Nemours receives $10.5 million NIH grant to support research in sickle cell disease
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Sickle Cell COBRE Phase II Grant Featured in Under the Lens
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Happy World Sickle Cell Day!
June 19, 2020
Happy World Sickle Cell Day!
Nemours associates wearing red in recognition of the World Sickle Cell Day
Focus Group for the Sickle Cell Disease Provider Team
Focus Group for the Sickle Cell Disease Provider Team—led by Dr. Hildenbrand (5th person from the right)
The N/AIDHC multidisciplinary sickle cell care team met together in February, 2020 to discuss findings from Dr. Hildenbrand’s pilot study on factors influencing hydroxyurea uptake among youth with SCD at Nemours. The team worked together to translate […]
Best Oral Abstract Award
Aimee Hildenbrand, Ph.D., a Pilot investigator for SCD COBRE was chose for the Best Oral Abstract Award” in Community-based/Psychosocial Research category from the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America in October 2019. Title: Youth and Caregiver Perspectives on Barriers and Facilitators to Hydroxyurea Uptake in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease. Podium presentation at the Sickle Cell Disease Association […]
Best Quality Improvement Abstract Award
SCD COBRE member, Erin Coyne, CRNP received Best Quality Improvement Abstract Award for the following presentation at AAP.
Erin Coyne CRNP, Robin Miller MD, Jennifer Cooper RN, Karina Chara, Katie Giordano DO, Sara Wilson RN, Arezoo Zomorrodi MD, “An Improvement Project to Decrease Time to Pain Medication for Patients with Vaso-Occlusive Crisis Presenting to an Emergency […]
Dr. Moodalbail Confirms Presence of Ambulatory Hypertension in Sickle-Cell Disease Cohort
In a study recently published in Journal of the American Society of Hypertension, Divya Moodalbail, MD, Pediatric Nephrologist, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, noted presence of ambulatory hypertension in a cohort of children with sickle-cell disease.
Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is a condition wherein abnormally high levels of hemoglobin cause red-blood-cell dysfunction and early cell […]
Nemours Center of Cancer and Blood Disorders Awarded $10M COBRE Grant
Written by Vicky Funanage, PhDOperational Vice President, Research
Staff of new Sickle Cell COBREPlease join me in congratulating Marie Stuart, MD, of the Nemours Center of Cancer and Blood Disorders in securing what I believe to be the largest grant award to Nemours: a 5-year, $10.2-million NIH COBRE (Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence) grant to […]
