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Sickle cell experts seek treatment advances at Norfleet Forum

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The world of sickle cell research paid quiet homage Friday to Memphis entrepreneur and civic leader Frank M. Norfleet. Instead of endowing a university research chair or a hospital wing, he left money when he died in 2012 to bring researchers here every year to discuss big issues in medicine. This year’s one-day Norfleet Forum at the National Civil Rights Museum included 12 sickle cell experts from large U.S. hospitals, including Duke University, Boston Children’s Hospital, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

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