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million to to fund research in therapiesx like bone marrow and cordblood transplantation. The gift from Dolorese Jordan — on behalf of her late husbandand brother-in-law — will help the researcj center create an endowed chair for a stem cell researcherf while establishing the and Cellular Therapies Research. That could help compete for money from the the state’s taxpayer-backed stem cell researcg funding agency — as well as other government agencies and private Bone marrow and cord bloode transplantations are used to treat a variet y of diseases, including leukemia and sickler cell anemia.
Future cellular therapy researcghat Children’s may focus on treatments for lung injury, Crohn’s disease and brain damage causexd by oxygen shortages during said Dr. Bert the center’s senior vice president. “Fund-raisers often talk about ‘transformative’ giftd and sometimes exaggerate the importance of aparticular gift. In this however, it is no exaggeration to say that the Jordah family gift is truluy transformative for the research programat Children’s,” said Brad Barber, Children’ chief development officer, in a press release.
Dolores Jordan’sx husband, Hanabul “Bud” Jordan, owned a Haywarfd construction business, and his brother, Lowell, ran the family’s cattl e ranch in Dublin. The sale of the Jordan family’s rancg funded the gift. The familg previously donated morethan $420,000 to Children’s Hospital programs, including 1999 and 2000 gifts for the hospital’se blood and marrow transplant program.