New UCSF Center Offers Hope for Children With Rare Genetic Disease

When Hannah Detlefsen was born in 2017, her parents celebrated a healthy 8-pound baby. But in the ensuing months, they began to grapple with a very different truth.

Hannah’s father, Jeffrey Detlefsen, saw something unusual while cradling his newborn. “It was just a few days before her two-month checkup, and I noticed there was no pupil in her right eye,” he said. “It was just this blue, cloudy iris.”

That was the beginning of the family’s medical odyssey.

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