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Your gift, no matter how large or small, makes all the difference to a patient needing support. Patients like Madalynn, 22 years old from Woodsboro, TX who needed a bone marrow transplant because of a rare genetic disease called GATA 2. Through your support we were able to provide her and her grandmother with an apartment to stay in during the 100 days she needed to stay close to the NIH after the transplant.
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YOUR GIFT – IN ANY AMOUNT – IS PRICELESS
When you make a donation to support our cause, you join hundreds of generous people who are giving to others at a time when they are in the most need, when they should be focused on healing and not how to pay the next bill.
The dollars we receive are used for our programs on transportation, lodging, medical expenses and patient outings.
Dr. Francis Collins and Diane Baker
We would like to give a big note of thanks and congratulations to NIH’s director Dr. Francis Collins and his wife, Diane Baker. Both have been incredible supporters of Friends of Patients at the NIH through the years.
Diane is a former board member and Dr. Collins never misses an opportunity to help us support NIH patients. They have recently been named Washingtonians of the Year!
Follow the link to Washingtonian magazine to read more about this great honor.
Friends 2019
17-year-old Dixon
Friends of Patient at the NIH provided support to 17-year-old Dixon and his family last year when he came to the NIH seeking a stem cell transplant for Sickle Cell Disease.
Dr. John Tisdale, his physician, who has pioneered this experimental treatment, says it is safe to say Dixon is cured! What great words for Dixon’s family to hear!
Initially, Dixon’s father, Leonard, took him and his older sister, Flavia, to India from their native country of Uganda. Both children had Sickle Cell Disease.
The family could only afford treatment for one child at a time, so Flavia told her little brother, “You go first.” Unfortunately, Flavia died waiting for medicine.
When Dixon’s father heard about this treatment in the United States, he resolved to do everything possible to save Dixon’s life. Hear Dixon’s story in his own words, meet his father and the physician/researcher, Dr. John Tisdale.
Please help us help provide emergency financial support to many more NIH patients in clinical trials, like Dixon.
Give a Gift to Many… and Enjoy a Tax Break
Friends of Patients at the NIH is a 501c3 charitable organization. Your gift that means the world to patients and their families is tax deductible.
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We help patients take care of their essential needs so they can focus on healing.
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