Nature Reviews: Primer on Sickle Cell Disease

Nature Reviews Disease Primers  has selected Dr. Kato’s Primer on Sickle Cell Disease to feature on their homepage this month.  The Primer is available to download for free until June 13, 2019. View / Download Sickle Cell Disease...

World Sickle Cell Day Event a Success!

Family Sickle Cell Research and Educational Summit June 19, 2018 Post-Event Summary The Sickle Cell Center of Excellence hosted a very successful, informative, and well-received World Sickle Cell Day event on Tuesday, June 19, which included tours of the Vascular...

Benign Hematology Retreat – October 23

UPDATE (11-17-2017):  If you missed it the first time, you can go back and listen to presentations from Blood, Sweat and Peers: Making Hematology Research Connections. This archival recording is a nearly comprehensive collection of current hematology research at Pitt,...

Currently recruiting for Riociguat clinical trial

Drs. Kato and Gladwin are now recruiting participants for the Multi-Center Study of Riociguat in Sickle Cell Patients trial.   For more information, or to see if you qualify, please contact Carolyn Newkirk at 412-692-2437 or can59@pitt.edu. You can also find...

Vodacom Foundation donates mobile phones for study

Exciting news from collaborators in Tanzania!  The MDOTtrial ,whose main intervention is self-video recording of the participant while taking medication, requires the use of mobile smart phones.  However, due to budget, the study was not able to purchase mobile smart...