National Cord Blood Program of the New York Blood Center

http://www.nationalcordbloodprogram.org

212-570-3000

Patients, caregivers, health professionals

To investigate cord blood as a possible solution to a critical public health need: finding appropriate hematopoietic transplants for patients who have no matched bone marrow donors.

• Makes cord blood available to children and adults who face a life-threatening illness and need "stem cell" transplants from unrelated donors
• Collects, processes, tests and stores cord blood that mothers donate for use by patients in need
• Website provides basic information about cord blood transplants.