{"id":196444,"date":"2024-09-20T12:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/sickle-cell-patient-cured-with-crispr-summits-kilimanjaro-setting-world-record"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:47:42","slug":"sickle-cell-patient-cured-with-crispr-summits-kilimanjaro-setting-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/sickle-cell-patient-cured-with-crispr-summits-kilimanjaro-setting-world-record","title":{"rendered":"Sickle Cell Patient Cured With CRISPR Summits Kilimanjaro, Setting World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sickle-cell-patient-cured-with-crispr-summits-kilimanjaro-setting-world-record.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four years after being functionally cured of sickle cell disease with a CRISPR gene-editing therapy, <a href=\"https:\/\/timmermanreport.com\/2024\/06\/a-new-outlook-on-life-with-sickle-cell-disease-jimi-olaghere-on-the-long-run\/\">Jimi Olaghere<\/a> has set a new world record for patients with this chronic and deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p>Olaghere, a 39-year-old business owner from Atlanta, became the world\u2019s first patient with sickle cell disease to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro at 7:30 am Tanzania time on Sept. 16. It\u2019s the highest peak in Africa at 19,341 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after being functionally cured of sickle cell disease with a CRISPR gene-editing therapy, Jimi Olaghere has set a new world record for patients with this chronic and deadly disease. Olaghere, a 39-year-old business owner from Atlanta, became the world\u2019s first patient with sickle cell disease to reach the summit of Kilimanjaro at 7:30 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}