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Georgia Tech Hosts Sickle Cell Disease Symposium

November 3, 2010 By Georgia Tech Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech will host the Sickle Cell Disease Symposium
bringing together researchers, policy experts and community advocates to
discuss the latest research and strategies for future success in combating this
complex and debilitating blood disorder. The symposium begins at Georgia Techs
Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience on November 4 and concludes the
evening of November 5.

“Theres a misconception that sickle cell disease solely affects
African Americans and that it does not represent a health disparity.  All
races can be affected and the disease is most prevalent in those with ancestry
from sub-Saharan Africa, Saudi Arabia, India, the Mediterranean and Latin and
South America,” said conference organizer Gilda Barabino, professor and
associate chair for graduate studies in the Wallace H. Coulter
Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. “Sickle cell
disease is prevalent in populations that face social, economic, cultural,
structural, geographical and other barriers to comprehensive and quality care
and, as such is among the diseases that involve health
disparities.”

Sickle cell disease is a blood disorder that
results in patients having mostly hemoglobin S in their blood streams. Patients
with this disorder often have red blood cells that take on a sickle shape,
rather than the typical disc shape. The sickle-shaped blood cells are less
pliable than normal red blood cells, making it difficult for blood to pass
through small blood vessels. When sickle cells clog up small blood vessels,
less fresh blood can flow to that tissue, causing damage and the eventual
complications that accompany sickle cell disease.

“There is no cure for sickle cell
disease, and existing therapies are limited in their benefit to patients. 
This blood disorder involves virtually every organ system, and each must be
addressed in the context of the other systems,” said Barabino. “While
understandably, since Sickle cell disease is a blood disorder, hematological
perspectives have dominated, there is much to learn from other areas to include
perspectives on public health, nutrition, health outcomes and surveillance.
Future translational advances in the next century will only occur through integrated
approaches that view the patient in total and draw on the tools and
technologies of a variety of disciplines.”

The symposium will gather experts from the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta,
the University of Southern California, the University of California – San
Francisco, the University of Minnesota, the University of Virginia, the
University of the West Indies and Medical College of Georgia as well as the
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.

By bringing together scientists, policy experts
and consumers, the organizers hope to build a true community amongst
researchers aiming to develop treatments and possible cures for this disease.
They also aim to strengthen existing partnerships and develop a blueprint for
research that establishes the state of Georgia as an unrivaled leader in this
field.

“Sickle cell disease is a very complicated and
debilitating genetic blood disorder for which a cure and effective treatment
strategies remain elusive, even 100 years after the initial discovery of the
disease. By bringing together these groups, we seek to work across boundaries
and deliver a blueprint for an integrated sickle cell research strategy,” said
Barabino.

 

The
Georgia Institute
of Technology is one of the world’s premier research universities.
Ranked
seventh among U.S. News & World Report’s top public
universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology
university in the world by Shanghai
Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia
Techs more
than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture,
Computing,
Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the
nation’s
top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers
research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and
is home
to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research
Institute.

SOURCE

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