Jimi Olaghere 36, thought he would have to wait decades to be freed from his sickle cell disease – but now scientists have engineered his blood to overcome it.
“It’s like being born again,” says Jimi, one of the first seven sickle cell patients to have benefited from a revolutionary new gene-editing treatment being trialled in the USA. He says it has changed his life.
In late 2019, Jimi read an article about a new clinical trial using gene editing and he immediately emailed the medical team. A month later Jimi and his wife Amanda, who was eight months pregnant, travelled to the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville to see if he would qualify. When news came back that he had been accepted into the trial, Jimi said it was “the best Christmas present ever”. And then he was lucky
The procedure was exhausting, but around two weeks later, Jimi emerged as a completely new person. Jimi is free of pain and has been cured of sickle cell disease 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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