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Fred Hutch hematologist Marco Mielcarek, MD, PhD, has received a five-year, $3.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) U01 collaborative research grant to complete a clinical trial and related ...

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After more than a century, sickle cell disease patients are still waiting for the treatment pipeline to catch up with the disease, and it shouldn’t be that way.

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