Carla Howard shares her journey of living with sickle cell disease and how she works to make a difference for the next generation of patients. (Learn more about Carla.) Punam Malik, MD, director of the Cincinnati Children’s Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, explains the basics of sickle cell disease and how it affects the body. Malik also discusses work in her lab on a one-time, potentially curative investigational gene therapy called ARU-1801.