UM Miller School of Medicine: Florida First - Breakthrough Treatment Gives Young Man New Life After Sickle Cell Disease
June 24, 2025
June 24, 2025
MIAMI, Florida, June 24 -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news:
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A Florida First: Breakthrough Treatment Gives Young Man New Life After Sickle Cell Disease
Summary
* Javarian Weatherspoon became the first person in South Florida to receive a gene therapy that offers hope for a cure to sickle cell disease.
* The therapy, Beam-101, modifies a patient's own blood cells through base edi . . .
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A Florida First: Breakthrough Treatment Gives Young Man New Life After Sickle Cell Disease
Summary
* Javarian Weatherspoon became the first person in South Florida to receive a gene therapy that offers hope for a cure to sickle cell disease.
* The therapy, Beam-101, modifies a patient's own blood cells through base edi . . .