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The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1987 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operates the Be The Match Registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors and umbilical cord blood units in the United States . The Be The Match Registry is the world's largest hematopoietic cell registry, listing more ...
First Heart and Lung Transplant. Brenda Barber. 1984 - UK's first successful heart and lung transplant. 1984. 10 years. First human hand transplant. Earl Owen and Jean-Michel Dubernard. Clint Hallam. The transplanted hand was removed at request of recipient after about two and a half years on February 2, 2001.
Anthony Nolan is a UK charity that works in the areas of leukaemia and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.It manages and recruits donors to the Anthony Nolan Register, which is part of an aligned registry that also includes the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry, NHS Blood and Transplant's British Bone Marrow Registry and Deutsche KnochenMarkSpenderdatei UK.
The United Network for Organ Sharing ( UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network ( OPTN) in the United States, established ( 42 U.S.C. ยง 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.
In October, an administrative specialist from Be The Match, the nonprofit National Marrow Donor Program, informed me that my bone marrow transplant recipient wanted to connect with me. It had been ...
Nobody in Oppedisano's family was a perfect bone marrow match, so he enrolled in the Be The Match marrow registry in hopes of finding one. After he enrolled, all he could do was wait. After he ...
No one in Cami's family was a match to be a bone marrow donor but in 2013 a stranger on the bone marrow registry was. Joe from Texas saved this little girl's life. According to Chelsea, Cami's mom ...
The Gift of Life Marrow Registry is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida that operates a public blood stem cell and bone marrow registry while facilitating transplants for children and adults battling life-threatening illnesses, including leukemia, lymphoma, other cancers and genetic diseases.