From Nov 2017 Newsletter… Join us this giving season to help patients and their families and make tomorrow’s life-saving treatments happen today. Friends of Patients at the NIH partners with patients and researchers to turn HOPE INTO DISCOVERY AND DISCOVERY INTO CURES Friends at NIH provides emergency financial and emotional support to patients in experimental […]
The NIH’s Dr. Steven Rosenberg – Pioneering Researcher, Surgeon, Mentor and Mensch Decades ago, Dr. Steven Rosenberg was the first to show that immunotherapy – harnessing the body’s own immune system to kill cancer cells – could work. Since then, he has been at the center of efforts to advance this fast-emerging field to the point where […]
“Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) causes immense suffering in patients. When you see a patient in (sickle cell) crisis, you just want to do something.” John Tisdale, M.D. is a physician scientist who has spent his career working with Sickle Cell Disease. Rather than simply focus on seeing patients, Dr. Tisdale splits his time between the lab and seeing patients. […]
