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Lecture 16: Hereditary Marrow Failure Syndromes
Daria Babushok, MD PhD
Presentation Date:
January 22, 2026
> The inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS) are a group of rare genetic blood disorders in which there is usually some form of aplastic anemia.
> While rare, these disorders have taught us a great deal about normal and abnormal hematopoiesis.
Daria Babushok, MD PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology-Oncology
University of Pennsylvania
daria.babushok@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Left: Guido Fanconi (1892 to 1979) was a Swiss pediatrician who described the hereditary marrow failure syndrome that bears his name.
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