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Conversations with Giants in Medicine 10.1172/JCI145540

A conversation with Griffin Rodgers

Ushma S. Neill

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Published January 4, 2021 - More info

Published in Volume 131, Issue 1 on January 4, 2021
J Clin Invest. 2021;131(1):e145540. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI145540.
© 2021 American Society for Clinical Investigation
Published January 4, 2021 - Version history
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Excerpt: Beginning in the mid-1980s, Dr. Griffin Rodgers, Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health, led studies demonstrating the effectiveness of the drug hydroxyurea, the first FDA-approved drug for sickle cell disease. Since then, Rodgers (Figure 1) has worked...

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