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February 9, 2021 News by Marta Figueiredo, PhD

NHLBI Challenges Students to Create Innovative Tools to Raise Awareness

A new National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) challenge will award a first prize of $25,000 to a team of college or graduate students who develop an innovative tool to help spread evidence-based information about sickle cell disease (SCD). A total of $50,000 will be granted to the three…

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