A Father’s Battle With Big Pharma Over a Revolutionary Cure For Sickle Cell Disease

Patrick Girondi, the founder of San Rocco Therapeutics (SRT), met with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA officials last month to discuss an affordable, advanced gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease (SCD) and thalassemia, after decades of legal battles with Big Pharma.
Girondi has asked Sec. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate a conspiracy by some of the most prominent names in the pharmaceutical industry, which continue to block his affordable gene therapy treatments. He said the delay has cost money and countless lives due to the delay of a cheap and effective cure for SCD.