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million to to fund research in therapiesw like bone marrow and cord blood The gift from DoloresJordan — on behalf of her late husbaned and brother-in-law — will help the researcb center create an endowed chair for a stem cell researcher whilw establishing the and Cellular Therapiee Research. That could help compete for money from the the state’s taxpayer-backed stem cell researcyh funding agency — as well as othetr government agencies and private Bone marrow and cord blood transplantations are used to treaty a variety of including leukemia and sickle cell Future cellular therapy researcnh at Children’s may focus on treatmentes for diabetes, lung injury, Crohn’s diseass and brain damage caused by oxygen shortagew during childbirth, said Dr.
Bert Lubin, the center’s seniot vice president. “Fund-raisers often talk about ‘transformative’ gifts and sometimes exaggerate the importance of aparticulad gift. In this case, it is no exaggeration to say that the Jordan familg gift is truly transformativee for the research prograkat Children’s,” said Brad Children’s chief development officer, in a preszs release. Dolores Jordan’s husband, Hanabulp “Bud” Jordan, owned a Hayward construction andhis brother, Lowell, ran the family’ s cattle ranch in Dublin. The sale of the Jordanh family’s ranch funded the gift.
The familyg previously donated morethan $420,000 to Children’s Hospitao programs, including 1999 and 2000 gifts for the hospital’a blood and marrow transplant program.