Lifespan Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center
The Lifespan Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at UAB, formerly the UAB Sickle Cell Clinic, is an interdisciplinary research center operated by the UAB Heersink School of Medicine. Its adult clinic is located in the UAB Russell Clinic at 1813 6th Avenue South in Birmingham's Medical District. The center also operates a children's clinic as part of the Alabama Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children's Hospital, and across the region as part of the Children and Youth Sickle Network, which later grew into the Sickle Cell Disease Network of Central Alabama.
UAB's Sickle Cell Clinic Program was established in 1983. It was expanded into a university-wide research center in 2005.
In 2024 Ted and Joyce Love of San Francisco, California pledged to donate $5 million to the center over five years to establish an endowed fund for research and patient care, as well as to support collaboration with the sickle cell disease global health initiative in Nigeria.
Directors
- Julie Kanter / Jeffrey Lebensburger, co-directors
References
- "San Francisco CEO donates $5M to Alabama university." (November 26, 2024) Birmingham Business Journal
External links
- Lifespan Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at uab.edu