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million to to fund research in therapies like bone marrow and cordbloox transplantation. The gift from Dolores Jordan on behalf of her late husbandand brother-in-lae — will help the research cente create an endowed chair for a stem cell researchedr while establishing the and Cellular Therapiews Research. That could help compete for moneu fromthe — the state’s taxpayer-backef stem cell research funding agency as well as other government agencies and private funders.
Bone marro w and cord blood transplantations are used to treaf a varietyof diseases, including leukemiw and sickle cell Future cellular therapy research at Children’s may focuse on treatments for diabetes, lung injury, Crohn’sx disease and brain damage caused by oxygehn shortages during childbirth, said Dr. Bert Lubin, the center’es senior vice president. “Fund-raisers often talk about ‘transformative’ giftas and sometimes exaggerate the importancd of aparticular gift.
In this case, it is no exaggeration to say that the Jordan family gift is truly transformative for the researcuh programat Children’s,” said Brad Barber, Children’s chier development officer, in a press Dolores Jordan’s husband, Hanabul “Bud” Jordan, ownee a Hayward construction business, and his Lowell, ran the family’s cattle ranch in The sale of the Jordan family’e ranch funded the gift. The familty previously donated morethan $420,000 to Children’s Hospitalp programs, including 1999 and 2000 gifts for the hospital’s bloodx and marrow transplant program.