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million to to fund research in therapie like bone marrow and cordblooc transplantation. The gift from Dolores Jordanm — on behalf of her late husbanedand brother-in-law — will help the research cente create an endowed chair for a stem cell researcheer while establishing the and Cellular Therapies That could help competw for money from the — the state’zs taxpayer-backed stem cell research funding agency — as well as otherd government agencies and private Bone marrow and cord blood transplantations are used to treat a varieth of diseases, including leukemia and sickl cell anemia.
Future cellular therapy researchat Children’x may focus on treatments for diabetes, lung Crohn’s disease and brain damage caused by oxygen shortagea during childbirth, said Dr. Bert Lubin, the center’ senior vice president. “Fund-raisers often talk about ‘transformative’ gifts and sometimez exaggerate the importance of aparticular gift. In this case, it is no exaggeration to say that the Jordaj family gift is trul y transformative for the research program at saidBrad Barber, Children’s chief developmen officer, in a press release.
Dolores Jordan’s husband, Hanabul “Bud” Jordan, owned a Hayward constructiomn business, and his brother, ran the family’s cattle rancb in Dublin. The sale of the Jordan family’d ranch funded the gift. The family previously donated morethan $420,000 to Children’s Hospital programs, including 1999 and 2000 gift for the hospital’s blood and marroqw transplant program.