I visited briefly with Harold at around 4:00pm. Jackie & Sierra were already there and were packing up Harold's stuff in preparation fo moving him to UCSF Med Center. Everyone was in good spirits and anticipating the prospect of finally getting Harold some more appropriate care. UCSF has many physician/researchers including the recent Nobel Laureat in Medicine, Elizabeth Blackburn. (Press Release below) She is a professor at UCSF and also involved in stem cell research with a biotech company named Geron aimed at developing therapies using stem cells to address the enzyme telomerase with multiple myeloma cancers. Geron has several drugs in Phase I & II testing, although apparently these trials are not being conducted locally.
Press Release
5 October, 2009
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak
for the discovery of
"how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
Hi, Phil, thanks for the links...
ReplyDeleteHi, I'm so glad Harold and you guys had a good experience with UCSF. I had kind of a sleepless night last night worrying that Leland and I were pushing to hard for this and that it isn't really our place etc whew. My friend whose brother recd tx for adult onset leukemia at the UCSF Myeloma and Leukemia clinic said that he recd excellent care. She did say that a couple of the top docs were a little terse but at least as you say they are pretty organized.
ReplyDeleteI am down in Palo Alto for a couple days helping archive my dads photography. Will be back later today and be more available for team Harold!!!
Love to you and Yours
lara