Come to these events and help Friends at NIH!
Friends Night Out 2021
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 6pm – 9:30pm.
Strathmore- Outdoor Patio Stage
5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD 20852
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13th Annual Charity Golf Tournament
Monday, October 25th, 2021.
Join us as an individual or as a corporate team.
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As we continue into 2021, we ask for your continued support. Patients are coming back to the NIH clinical center for ground-breaking, life-saving treatments.
A donation from you can mean so much to one of our patients who is looking for transportation assistance or lodging to continue or start their protocols. Please, make a gift today. It’s only though your generosity that we are able to help.
Thank you for that.
Your generosity is greatly appreciated by those we helped in 2020 and those we will support in 2021.
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.
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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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