October Newsletter (2025)
This month, we remind everyone to join us for the upcoming Therapeutics Conference, announce a few new blogs, and share some conference season wins.
View some of our most recent media mentions. We’re proud to be featured on local
and national levels, speaking about sickle cell disease.
In anticipation of the upcoming 2025 Sick Cells Therapeutics Conference: Therapeutics Unlocked, Maia Z. Laing of Sick Cells sat down with Bio.News to better understand her journey as a patient advocate, as well as what she sees is still needed in sickle cell advocacy today.
Authority Magazine, a Medium publication, spoke with Ashley Valentine about her life and work in the sickle cell community.
The New York Times talks to the sickle cell community about upcoming gene therapies.
Press Release regarding Sick Cells and Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI)’s joint white paper published October 20, 2022
Our community has a lot to say. Read up on some personal views and perspective
from Sick Cells’ members and the SCD community.
Sick Cells met with Hanif Mouehla, a Harvard pre-med student and passionate sickle cell advocate, who has courageously shared his story to increase awareness of clinical trials and the promise of cell and gene therapies.
Ashley Valentine speaks on her experience with clinical trials to shed light on both the importance and the journey of these life saving trials.