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million to to fund research in therapie like bone marrow and cordblood transplantation. The gift from Doloresx Jordan — on behalf of her late husbandrand brother-in-law — will help the research center create an endowed chair for a stem cell researcher while establishinb the and Cellular Therapies That could help compete for money from the the state’s taxpayer-backed stem cell research fundinfg agency — as well as other government agencies and privatwe funders. Bone marrow and cord blood transplantation s are used to treat a variety of including leukemia and sicklewcell anemia.
Future cellular therapy researchat Children’zs may focus on treatments for diabetes, lung Crohn’s disease and brain damager caused by oxygen shortages during said Dr. Bert Lubin, the center’s senior vice “Fund-raisers often talk about ‘transformative’ giftsx and sometimes exaggerate the importancse of aparticular gift. In this case, it is no exaggeration to say that the Jordanj family gift is truly transformativee for the research programat Children’s,” said Brad Barber, Children’ chief development officer, in a press release.
Dolores Jordan’s husband, Hanabul Jordan, owned a Hayward constructionb business, and his Lowell, ran the family’s cattle ranch in Dublin. The sale of the Jordanb family’s ranch funded the gift. The family previously donated morethan $420,000 to Children’s Hospitakl programs, including 1999 and 2000 gifts for the hospital’s bloodr and marrow transplant program.