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Washington research institutes receive $12M to pursue 'bubble boy' cure

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Washington research institutes receive $12M to pursue 'bubble boy' cure

September 12, 2012

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2012/09/12/washington-research-institutes.html

 

Source - Puget Sound Business Journal


Seattle Children’s Research Institute is one of the Washington state institutions receiving a $12 million National Institutes of Health grant that will support gene research into Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), or “bubble boy disease,” during the next five years.

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