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Montecito Residents Start Non-Profit
In late 2015, Montecito residents and Crane School parents Tim and Monica Babich founded the RUNX1 Research Program (RRP) to increase awareness of a rare, inherited blood disorder called RUNX1 Familial Platelet Disorder (RUNX1-FPD). The disorder affects generations in the Babich family, and predisposes patients to leukemia and lymphoma. “It’s an under-diagnosed, rare familial platelet disorder which leads to about a […]