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We were featured on WUAB. Expecting mothers, please consider donating your babies' cord blood to help advance therapies and save lives! Researchers are doing amazing things with cord-blood derived stem cell therapies. tinyurl.com/2gsdcmpq

After serving 12 years as chairperson of the National Marrow Donor Program’s (NMDP) Cord Blood Advisory Subgroup (CB AG), Cleveland Cord Blood Executive Director, Marcie Finney is handing the role of chair to another member. Thank you, Marcie, for your contributions to NMDP.

Join us in celebrating World Cord Blood Day on November 15, 2022. CCBC encourages you to register to attend the Official Virtual Conference: worldcordbloodday.org/wcbd-2022-virt… (registration is free on Eventbrite). #WorldCordBloodDay #WCBD22

In celebration of World Cord Blood Day, the team at CCBC gathered before the Official Virtual Conference to hear Jamie Sullivan’s story of her cord blood donation and Lisa Maxon tell her story of her cord blood transplant. #WorldCordBloodDay #WCBD22

CCBC is thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Advanced Therapies Awards in the non-profit Patient Advocacy category. Winners will be announced on January 19th. Our team is so excited to celebrate with everyone there! #ATA23 #ATW23 #advancedtherapies #finalist

CCBC is honored to be on this list at the Phacilitate #ATW23 awards event recognizing our work in Patient Advocacy. Save a Cord. Save a Life. #clevecordblood

Congratulations to Dawn Thut, CCBC’s Quality/Regulatory Affairs Manager on obtaining her certification by the AABB as an Advanced Biotherapies Professional. Having a CABP recognizes those with the necessary knowledge to credibly practice in the field of biotherapies.

CCBC celebrated 10 years of partnership with Piedmont Atlanta Hospital this month. The collection site has collected over 17,000 UCB units. Piedmont has had 95 units transplanted. Please join us in congratulating our Atlanta Team.

If you have a disease or illness that might require a stem cell or bone marrow transplant...Think cord blood. Ask your physician if a cord blood transplant is an option for you. Learn more about the benefits of cord blood here. clevelandcordblood.org/benefits-of-co…

Cleveland Cord Blood Center celebrated 10 years of partnership with Emory Midtown Hospital in Atlanta, GA. The collection site opened March 2013 and has collected over 12,000 UCB units and has had 41 UCB transplants. Join us in celebrating our Emory Midtown team in Atlanta.

Show Your Stripes! Today is Rare Disease Awareness Day! Check out the Official Rare Disease Day video produced by NORD, the National Organization for Rare Diseases- youtu.be/bCxtcx5RYKE #ShowYourStripes #RareDiseaseDay #UmbilicalCordDonation #CCBC

We welcomed 3 new board members to the Cleveland Cord Blood Center Board of Directors- Nancy Cook, Ilana Landsman and Pamela Plott. These individuals represent communities and organizations throughout the regions we serve including Georgia, California, and Ohio.

CCBC will open a new collection site at Sutter Alta Bates in Berkley California this week. This is in partnership with the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program, designed to capture the genetic diversity of Californians through the collection of cord blood units.

From deciding to get pregnant to delivering the baby, CDC have a wealth of knowledge about pregnancy. cdc.gov/pregnancy/inde…

Unrelated Donor Cord Blood Transplantation in Children: Lessons Learned Over Three Decades In their recent article, Kurtzberg, et al present a report of outcomes of unrelated donor cb transplantation in pediatric patients over nearly 30 years. academic.oup.com/stcltm/article…

CCBC held online training sessions for its team of cord blood coordinators from Ohio, Georgia, and California. Discussion topics included cord blood research, the journey of a cord blood unit, and consenting. Thank you to the CCBC Collections Team for organizing the sessions.

Each day the CCBC Processing Facility staff spend their day accessioning, testing, processing, qualifying, and freezing the donated cord blood units from Ohio, Georgia, and California. Here’s a few photos of them in action. Save a Cord. Save a Life.

CCBC will be participating in a pregnancy fair in Cleveland, OH. Please visit our booth at the Babies and Bumps event on 4/30 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. To learn more about this event click on the link below. babies-and-bumps.com/cleveland/

A new publication by the group of the late Hal Broxmeyer shows that cord blood stored for 27 years retains the critical biological properties & activity needed for transplantation into patients for treatment of certain leukemias and other blood cancers. cell.com/cell-reports-m…