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Biotech company taps former S.F. Mayor Willie Brown
2015-01-09 02:45:35| Biotech - Topix.net
Global Blood Therapeutics of South San Francisco, which develops small-molecule therapies for severe blood disorders, has a drug in the works for sickle cell disease, which affects about 70,000 to 100,000 people in the United States, and disproportionately affects African Americans. The a rare and inherited blood disorder occurs in about 1 out of 500 African American births.
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