National Cord Blood Program
Organization URL(s)
ncbp@nybloodcenter.orgwww.nationalcordbloodprogram.org/index.html
Other Contact Information
New York Blood Center
310 East 67th Street
New York,
NY 10021
866-767-6227 (Voice - Toll-free)
212-570-9061 (FAX)
Description
The New York Blood Center's National Cord Blood Program (NCBP) was conceived in 1989 and launched in 1992 with a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. It was founded 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. Today, more than 29,000 banked cord blood units and over 1,800 transplanted patients later, the NCBP is the largest, single non-profit public cord blood bank in the world.
Online Resources
- Cord Blood: Questions and Answers
http://www.nationalcordbloodprogram.org/qa/what_is_cordblood.html