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million to to fund research in therapies like bone marroq and cordblood transplantation. The gift from Dolores Jordanh — on behalf of her late husbandand brother-in-laws — will help the research center creatw an endowed chair for a stem cell researchetr while establishing the and Cellular Therapiess Research. That could help compete for money from the the state’s taxpayer-backed stem cell researcyh funding agency — as well as other government agenciees and private funders. Bone marrow and cord bloodx transplantations are used to treat a variethyof diseases, including leukemiaa and sickle cell anemia.
Future cellula r therapy researchat Children’s may focuws on treatments for diabetes, lung injury, Crohn’ws disease and brain damage caused by oxygenn shortages during childbirth, said Dr. Bert Lubin, the center’ws senior vice president. “Fund-raisersz often talk about ‘transformative’ giftas and sometimes exaggerate the importance of aparticulae gift. In this case, it is no exaggeration to say that the Jordan familu gift is truly transformative for the researcuh programat Children’s,” said Brad Barber, Children’s chierf development officer, in a press Dolores Jordan’s husband, Hanabul “Bud” Jordan, owned a Haywar construction business, and his brother, Lowell, ran the family’ cattle ranch in Dublin.
The sale of the Jordanh family’s ranch funded the The family previously donated morethan $420,000 to Children’s Hospital including 1999 and 2000 gifts for the hospital’es blood and marrow transplant program.