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Victoria Gray

A woman with braided hair, wearing hoop earrings and a patterned top, stands against a neutral background.

American woman from Forest, Mississippi, born 1985, who became the first patient in the United States treated with a CRISPR therapy for sickle-cell disease. She received her edited bone-marrow stem cells at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville in July 2019. Years later she remains free of the pain crises that had repeatedly put her in hospital since early childhood.

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