Research and cures for sickle cell disease have been underfunded as attention and wealth floods into other conditions, but this may change with the work and passion of local physician John Horan and grant writer Ruth Dinerman.
"We’re dealing with interesting dynamics right now because all the problems we have faced in the past now have little tentacles that are coming up in different ways."
--- Dr. Bernard Lafayette, from his remarks at the 20th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois lecture at Bard College at Simon's Rock
