Alexis Thompson of
@childrensphila discussed her groundbreaking research on sickle cell disease at a recent Medicine Grand Rounds. Her clinical research was instrumental in the approval of the first gene therapies for sickle cell disease. She is a past president of the American Society of Hematology (
@ash_hematology) and the current division chief of hematology at CHOP.
Her conversation was part of the Stan Schrier Memorial Lecture and was titled, "Progress in Sickle Cell Disease: Bending the Biomedical Arc Toward Health Equity?"
📸 by Clinton Louie
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