We are very proud to announce major progress in the search for a cure for sickle cell disease (SCD), the first genetic disease to be understood and a major disease that kills an estimated half-million people world-wide each year. As high as one in every four black persons in certain parts of Africa carries the sickle cell gene. In the United States the incidence is 1 in 12 for African Americans, and approximately 78,000 have SCD. Dr. Robert H. Broyles, a medical school professor and researcher in Oklahoma City, has discovered a protein that is grown in our own bodies that will silence the sickle cell gene and activate a normal gene in its place. Unlike current treatments that are only partially effective or treat the damage caused by SCD, this cure is very specific for the cause, easy to deliver, and beneficial to the whole body. We are working to get this treatment through safety trials and into the clinics where it will be available to all who have sickle cell disease. Our vision is a global one: our goal is to get this cure to each of the millions of people world-wide who have SCD and/or Beta-Thalassemia.
A cure for sickle cell disease from our own bodies…
November 15, 2009 By 162 Comments
am a sickler in africa precisely Cameroon, will i ever have this cure because i am giving up, am tied of pains,will africans ever be able to affort this cure please give me hopes to live am approaching 21 please tell me something
This is encouraging and good news as well. I lost my boy at the age of nine months and now after being blessed for the second time, got another boy who is three years of age and also suffering from sickle cell disease as well. We have been attending medical clinics at our National Hospital (MNH) in Dar es Salaam – Tanzania and still the boy is easily attacked by pneumonia frequently. It is our anticipation that your research be successful and save these innocent children. May GOD bless you and your team more abundantly and succed in your mission.
Am kelvin from Lagos Nigeria.
i long to c the cure for the SCD for a dear friend who needs it most. you said it will be out on a pre-clinical trial in mid-2012. how do people in Nigeria get this treatment and saygood bye to this long pains and tears. Am grateful to God for this discovery. await your reply and proper direction.
Dear Dr.Broyles. I want to thank you for this immense work you and your team are doing for humanity. I pray for mid 2012 to be by the corner soonest. My question is this, where will people in Nigeria get this miracle drugs if okayed for use in human beings? I asked this question cos my people will hijack it and sell at a very exorbitant price if left for them to manage and distribute. My plea to you and your team is start and make sure this cure gets to the right and needy patients. Thank you and may God reward you abundantly.
Dear Dr. Robert Broyles,
First of all I’ll say a very big thank you to you and your team for the great work. This is the best news I have heard in years, it is heart warming and gives a lotta hope to mankind. May the GAOTU aid you and your team in all your undertakings in this and all other great works of us. Cao’
Dear Dr Broyles,
Much appreciation for the wonderful work that you are doing! Please, I have already lost one child due to this devastating disease. I have 2 others who have also been diagnosed with the same.
When are the clinical trials on humans due to start? I havent seen any communication in 2012. I live in Kenya.
Thanks and God bless.