Dr. Fauci Receives Friends at NIH’s HOPE Award
Join us in wishing a fond farewell to our Friend and partner in HOPE…
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Thank you for your lifelong dedication to science, finding cures and giving HOPE to patients across our nation and around the world.
View the video to hear inspiring words from Dr. Fauci as he received Friends at NIH’s HOPE award.
NIH Doctor Studies Her Own Rare Disease
Four years ago, Dr. Marcela Ferrada faced a promising career as a critical care and infectious disease attending physician at both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and Johns Hopkins. She had attained her goal after completing dual fellowships at the two prestigious medical centers. Then she got very sick. Her diagnosis of […]
Amazing words for a parent to hear!
Hello Friends, “I think we can safely say Dixon is cured,” Dr. John Tisdale recently told Dixon’s father, Leonard. What amazing words for a parent to hear from his son’s doctor! 17-year-old Dixon is one the young brave patients, treated in an experimental study at the National Institutes of Health, that Friends of Patients at […]
Friends’ Night Out Honors Patients and Researchers
From Nov 2017 Newsletter… It was a party with a mission at Friends of Patients at the NIH’s recent annual Gala in Bethesda. Patients and researchers were the guests of honor. Seventeen-year-old Dixon, who has Sickle Cell Disease, and his father, Leonard, both from Uganda, were featured in a video describing how his illness can […]
