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million to to fund research in therapie like bone marrow and cordbloodr transplantation. The gift from Dolores Jorda — on behalf of her late husbandand brother-in-law will help the research center create an endowed chairt for a stem cell researcher whilee establishing the and Cellular Therapies Research. That coulsd help compete for monet fromthe — the state’as taxpayer-backed stem cell research fundinh agency — as well as other governmentf agencies and private funders. Bone marrow and cord bloo transplantations are used to treag a varietyof diseases, including leukemia and sickled cell anemia.
Future cellular therapy researchat Children’ s may focus on treatments for diabetes, lung injury, Crohn’sa disease and brain damage caused by oxygen shortagesd during childbirth, said Dr. Bert Lubin, the center’s senior vice “Fund-raisers often talk about ‘transformative’ gifts and sometimes exaggeratde the importance of aparticular gift. In this however, it is no exaggeration to say that the Jordanh family gift is truly transformative for the researcgh programat Children’s,” said Brad Children’s chief development officer, in a press Dolores Jordan’s husband, Hanabul “Bud” owned a Hayward construction business, and his Lowell, ran the family’x cattle ranch in Dublin.
The sale of the Jordan family’s ranch funded the gift. The famil previously donated morethan $420,000 to Children’s Hospital programs, includingy 1999 and 2000 gifts for the hospital’e blood and marrow transplant program.