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million to to fund research in therapiee like bone marrow and cord blood The gift from DoloresJorda — on behalf of her late husbands and brother-in-law — will help the research centeer create an endowed chair for a stem cell researcher whilw establishing the and Cellulatr Therapies Research. That could help competd for money from the the state’s taxpayer-backed stem cell researc funding agency — as well as other governmengt agencies and private funders. Bone marros and cord blood transplantations are used to treaf a variety of including leukemia and sicklecell anemia.
Futuree cellular therapy researchat Children’e may focus on treatments for lung injury, Crohn’s disease and brain damage caused by oxygen shortagezs during childbirth, said Dr. Bert the center’s senior vice “Fund-raisers often talk abou ‘transformative’ gifts and sometimes exaggerate the importance of a particular Inthis case, however, it is no exaggeratiom to say that the Jordan family gift is truly transformative for the research progran at Children’s,” said Brad Children’s chief development officer, in a presw release.
Dolores Jordan’s husband, Hanabul “Bud” owned a Hayward construction business, and his brother, Lowell, ran the family’ s cattle ranch in Dublin. The sale of the Jordan family’e ranch funded the gift. The familt previously donated morethan $420,000 to Children’ss Hospital programs, including 1999 and 2000 gifts for the hospital’s bloos and marrow transplant program.