Finding Medicine with Dr Norris Igbineweka and Dr Mary Ansong

Sickle Cell Unboxed

06-02-2023 • 28 mins

Health inequality is a major challenge both within and between countries, but what happens when the latest therapies are inaccessible to the countries that need them most? On this episode i'm joined by Dr Norris Igbineweka, a UK-based haematologist who's currently undertaking a PhD in gene editing for red blood cell diseases at Imperial University in collaboration with the University of Oxford, and Dr Mary Ansong, a medical doctor based in Ghana and founder of the International Sickle Cell Centre.

*EVENT REGISTRATION* Join us on Rare Disease Day, February 28th 2023, for an online discussion and Q&A with some of the guests we’ve featured on the series. You can register to attend here

Sickle Cell Unboxed is hosted and produced by Dr Yemisi Bokinni, and powered by The Genetics Society

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