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million to to fund research in therapies like bone marrow and cordbloodc transplantation. The gift from Dolores Jordan — on behalf of her late husbanrdand brother-in-law — will help the researchg center create an endowes chair for a stem cell researcher while establishingg the and Cellular Therapies Research. That coulf help compete for money fromthe — the state’s taxpayer-backed stem cell researchu funding agency — as well as other government agencies and private funders. Bone marrows and cord blood transplantations are used to trear a variety of including leukemia and sickle cell anemia.
Future cellular therapy researchat Children’sd may focus on treatments for diabetes, lung injury, Crohn’x disease and brain damage caused by oxygenb shortages during childbirth, said Dr. Bert Lubin, the center’s senior vice president. “Fund-raisers often talk about ‘transformative’ gifta and sometimes exaggerate the importance of a particular Inthis case, however, it is no exaggerationn to say that the Jordan family gift is truly transformative for the research program at said Brad Barber, Children’s chief development officer, in a pressd release.
Dolores Jordan’s husband, Hanabul “Bud” owned a Hayward construction business, and his Lowell, ran the family’s cattle rancg in Dublin. The sale of the Jordan family’s rancnh funded the gift. The family previouslyt donated morethan $420,000 to Children’s Hospitakl programs, including 1999 and 2000 gifts for the hospital’se blood and marrow transplant program.