Imagine if you had a magic switch that would change a person’s blood to make it resistant to MALARIA. Our lab has spent the last 15 years understanding, and creating the therapy that causes a person to produce fetal hemoglobin in place of all or part of the adult hemoglobin. Fetal hemoglobin is a cure for Malaria and Sickle Cell Disease. [...]
Accomplishments in 2011
March 23, 2012 by 3 Comments
The Sickle Cell Cure Foundation, Inc. (SCCF) has had a very successful and productive year. The highlights are listed below. As a direct result of having our laboratory and office within the Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Research Park, SCCF has formed collaborations that enhance our ability to achieve our most important goals. Emblematic of these [...]
Accomplishments for 2010
March 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Sickle Cell Cure Foundation, Inc. (SCCF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) research foundation incorporated in 2006. SCCF chose the PHF Research Park as its world headquarters to conduct translational research using patented treatments aimed at curing two of mankind’s most devastating diseases: malaria and its allied blood disorder, sickle cell disease (SCD). The Bill & [...]
Devastation Shall Be Overcome
December 30, 2010 by 17 Comments
The Sickle Cell Cure Foundation, Inc. (SCCF) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) research foundation incorporated in 2006. SCCF chose the PHF Research Park as its world headquarters to conduct translational research using patented treatments aimed at curing two of mankind’s most devastating diseases: malaria and its allied blood disorder, sickle cell disease (SCD). The Bill & [...]
The Sickle Cell Cure Foundation Receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Innovative Global Health Research
May 15, 2010 by 20 Comments
The Sickle Cell Cure Foundation, Inc. (SCCF), announced today that it has received a US$100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Robert H. Broyles, Ph.D., SCCF President, titled “Malaria Stopped by a Human Protein Therapeutic.” Dr. Broyles’ project [...]
Eradicating a Deadly Disease Through Science, Love and Music.
February 27, 2010 by 8 Comments
Article by Laura Jenney Of Mindsweep Entertainment & Promotions VPofMindsweep@aol.com Jacksonville, FL 1-20-2010 The arrival of the year 2010 is an exciting time indeed! Not only are we embracing the beginning of a brand new year, but a brand new decade as well. It’s a time of great possibilities and full of promise. A time [...]
Accomplishments for 2009
January 7, 2010 by Leave a Comment
SCCF submits the Continuation in Part (CIP) containing all our experimental results with human pediatric sickle cell patients’ blood to the U.S. Patent Office, March 15, 2009. The U.S. Patent on our sickle cell cure is issued the following month, 4/14/09. SCCF’s patents in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the European Union (U.K., France, Germany, [...]
SCCF Takes On Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
November 4, 2009 by 40 Comments
Somewhere, every minute, a baby dies of SCD. SCD is the most prevalent genetic disease globally. SCD occurs in many nations and among many races — wherever malaria was once or is still rampant. The Sickle Cell Cure Foundation has a cure for SCD. The SCCF’s cure will give SCD sufferers a normal life. The [...]
Plan to cure Sickle Cell Disease (updated 2010/12/30)
November 4, 2009 by 48 Comments
Plan to Cure or Ameliorate Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), Parkinson’s Disease (PD), and other diseases by Gene Regulation Therapy and Iron Management
Alicia and Dominick Bibbs
August 8, 2009 by 7 Comments
Alicia Bibbs, an SCCF founder & research student, is pictured with her brother Dominick who suffers from sickle cell disease and recently recovered from surgery to have his spleen and gall bladder removed.
