# Hemoglobin Switching Meeting

> **NIH NIH R13** · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · 2020 · $10,000

## Abstract

Abstract
The biennial Hemoglobin Switching Conferences have been ongoing for 43 years, and there are multiple
reasons for its resounding, continued success. First and foremost, the organizers Higgs, Engel, Zon and
Sankaran strive to identify and then highlight new discoveries by always including new, young investigators
and studies that impinge on the process of globin biosynthesis. Second, this is the only venue (other than the
annual ASH meeting, with more than 25,000 participants) that brings together basic scientists and clinicians to
discuss both the molecular and developmental origins of, and treatments for, the hemoglobinopathies, the
most common inherited diseases in man. Third, the meetings have historically evolved with intense focus on
wherever the science led, thus remaining extremely topical, and has not only been the forum for presenting the
first cDNA clones, the first cloned human genomic locus (and the first mutations in same), the structure of
erythropoietin and the discovery of the GATA and KLF transcription factor families, but it has also launched the
careers of many of the current leaders in this field (indeed, numerous former postdoctoral fellows and current
faculty first presented their work in plenary sessions at this conference). Fourth, this is the only meeting on this
topic that routinely has approximately equal attendance by investigators from both inside and outside the U.S.,
and this fact is reflected by the biennial alternation in conference site between the U.S. and Europe. In 2020
the Conference will be held in Crete, Greece.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10064453
- **Project number:** 1R13HL154346-01
- **Recipient organization:** BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** LEONARD Ira ZON
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $10,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2022-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10064453

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10064453, Hemoglobin Switching Meeting (1R13HL154346-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10064453. Licensed CC0.

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