Innovations In: Sickle Cell Disease

Improving sickle cell care by expanding treatment options, advancing new therapies and amplifying the voices of people with the disease

You have around 35 trillion red blood cells moving around your body at all times. Typically they are rounded and flexible. What happens when they aren’t?

Illuminating the experience of people living with sickle cell could improve patients’ lives and enhance all of medicine

Increased funding and new public health policies for sickle cell research are needed to ease the burden on low-income nations and improve patient care

Life expectancy for people with sickle cell in the U.S. has increased to about 50 years, but some people with the disease still face stigma and other barriers in health care

These sickle cell researchers and advocates are driving change from labs to global stages, transforming lives in the process.

The FDA recently approved three sickle cell drugs, and dozens more are in development

Sickle cell disease causes severe pain that’s hard to treat, but researchers are finding new ways to offer relief