Working in 1951 with Prof Alexander Stuart Douglas at the Blood Coagulation Research Unit in Oxford they jointly discovered a second strain of haemophilia, now known as Haemophilia B, but then known as Christmas disease after its first known sufferer, Stephen Christmas.
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The first successful use of gene transfer to convert severe to mild haemophilia B was reported by his group in December 2011 . He retired from Directorship of the Katharine Dormandy Centre in July 2011 and is now Emeritus Professor of Haemophilia at University College London.
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It had also been discovered that a second form of haemophilia ( Haemophilia B ) existed, which was treatable with blood protein called Factor IX . An agreement was reached between the Government, MRC and the Lister Institute and the Blood Products Laboratory was established with funding from the Ministry of Health.
