At the state level, Pennsylvania previously used Title II, Part A funding to support
a yearlong clinical pilot for a STEM - focused teacher preparation program.
Kenneth Ataga, MD, director of the UNC Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program, was featured in a video by the American Society of Hematology in which he discussed the favorable results of
a yearlong clinical trial studying crizanlizumab as a therapy to prevent and treat painful crisis events in patients with sickle cell disease.
In July Genentech announced that the drug Lucentis stabilized or even improved vision in
a yearlong clinical trial of patients with so - called wet macular degeneration, a form that involves overgrowth of blood vessels.