The Sickle Cell Disease Detector (SCADD) Project (360G-tnlcomfund-0030105847)

Sickle Cell Disease is incurable, causes major organ damage and drastically shortens life. Therapies need a reliable measure of disease severity but laboratory tests are impossible principally because blood taken from patients changes rapidly outside the body. The Sickle Cell Society has already developed a camera to detect diseased red blood cells inside the body. This project will now develop a more sensitive method of detection in preparation for large-scale clinical trials of the technique.