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1) Sickle Cell & Hemoglobinopathies
- Advancing therapy for sickle cell complications, including pain crises, avascular necrosis, priapism, and other complications
- Elucidating the role of intracardiac shunts in stroke and sickle cell disease
Resar LMS & Frank S. What to do when you can’t
transfuse. Hematology 2014;2014:553-8.
2) Bloodless Medicine & Surgery
- Developing strategies to advance care in bloodless medicine and surgery for patients who do not accept blood transfusions
- Identifying approaches to enhance hematopoiesis for bloodless medicine and surgery patients
- Identifying anti-cancer therapies that lack bone marrow suppression
3) Immune-mediated Thrombocytopenia Purpura (ITP)
- Developing therapies to enhance platelet production in ITP
- Developing strategies to improve blood stem cell function for patients with cytopenias