Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH, receives an $18.5 million grant — then the largest grant ever awarded to a pediatric faculty member at Washington University. With this funding, he heads an international, multicenter trial in sickle cell disease. In 2008, he becomes the Ferring Family Chair in Pediatric Cancer and Related Disorders.
“Dr. DeBaun is an international leader in the study of sickle cell disease. To St. Louis families, that means they receive the absolute best care by being enrolled in the Sickle Cell Disease Program and receive treatment in St. Louis — because the world’s leader in this disease is right here.”
— Lee Fetter, president of St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Michael R. DeBaun, MD, MPH, center, and medical student Paul Berry examine a young patient.