The Sickle Cell Foundation of Tennessee

04/04/2022

The Sickle Cell Challenge is underway! Have you donated? Scan the QR code or visit the website on the flyer today!

03/30/2022

We are elated to announce Joshua Urevbu as the recipient of the Dr. Patricia Graves scholarship!

Thank you so much to the amazing women of the Memphis Alumnae chapter of for your efforts in the fight to cure sickle cell disease!!

Way to go Joshua!

06/16/2021

On behalf of The Sickle Cell Foundation of Tennessee, board of
directors, the Tennessee sickle cell disease community and all
stakeholders, we thank you for being selected as a recipient of the
ACCEL grant.

03/26/2021

Thanks to Novartis for selecting The Sickle Cell Foundation of Tennessee for this generous grant. This will help us expand our SCDCARE programming. SCDCARE will collect, collate, analyze and share real-life resilience strategies from sickle cell disease, caregivers to help others caring for children and young adults with the disease.

https://www.novartis.us/stories/education-awareness/step-program-supporting-solutions-patient-advocacy-organizations

11/30/2020

We are looking forward to this amazing conversation on sickle cell disease. Thanks to all the partners and participants.

11/26/2020

From our family to yours, HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Enjoy your time to rest, be safe during these times, and give thanks!

11/11/2020

Belz Foundation donates $2M to Methodist Le Bonheur’s Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center

Methodist Le Bonheur has received a sizable gift from a foundation tied to a prominent local name in commercial real estate. The Belz Foundation donated $2 million to support Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare’s Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center. Related

11/10/2020

🙏🏾🙌🏾 Reposting : ⠀..⠀
"With two different outcomes, the first ever to be cured of disease Kimberlin Wilson George and advocate Teonna Woolford share their journeys in undergoing a bone marrow transplant to cure their sickle cell disease. They describe how this experience shaped their lives.⁠⠀
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Head over to sicklecellcon.com (link in bio) to watch the full video and other engaging content from the sickle cell community!⁠⠀
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Themes: Cure, fertility, faith, depression, advocacy⁠⠀
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11/04/2020

"SCD is very complex in regards to how it affects the body. But in terms of what begins those changes is very simple. It starts with a DNA substitution down at the cellular level, which creates a defective form of hemoglobin. That defective form of hemoglobin does not carry oxygen well, and those red blood cells that contain that defective hemoglobin become very fragile." - Dr. Lametra Scott

Lametra Scott, PharmD, CCHP, CEO of Breaking The Sickle Cell Cycle Foundation Inc, discussed the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease (SCD) the dangers of leaving it untreated.