Public Banks In USA
Ashley Ross Cord Blood Program of the San Diego Blood Bank
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.sandiegobloodbank.org
PHONE: (619) 296-6393 extension 8327
STORAGE: San Diego, CA
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
Bonfils Cord Blood Services Belle Bonfils Memorial Blood Center
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.bonfils.org
PHONE:
STORAGE: Denver, CO
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
Carolinas Cord Blood Bank
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: cancer.duke.edu/CCBB
PHONE: (919) 668-1116
STORAGE: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network. The Duke University ‘Carolinas’ Cord Blood Bank is accredited under the international FACT/Netcord standards.
Children’s Hospital of Orange County Cord Blood Bank
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.choc.org
PHONE: (714) 516-4335
STORAGE: Orange, CA
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
CORDUS
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants & Research
COLLECTS FROM: 7 hospitals in Florida and North Carolina
INTERNET: www.cordus.com
PHONE: 407-562-1650 (corporate)
OFFICE: Lake Mary, Florida
STORAGE: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW
DESCRIPTION:
CORDUS is a for-profit corporation founded in June 2004 to collect cord blood donations for public use. It is their hope that increased utilization of cord blood will enable them to turn a profit and allow them to continue to increase the number of units in their inventory.
The medical director of CORDUS is Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D. of Duke University, one of the world’s leading transplant physicians. The staff of CORDUS have profiles on their website.
CORDUS contracts with the laboratory of the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank at Duke University Medical Center; this laboratory holds FACT/Netcord accreditation. CORDUS samples are stored in a separate BioArchive freezer. CORDUS only accepts collections from medical centers where they have trained the staff. The collection may be performed by dedicated personnel or by OB/Gyn’s and midwives. CORDUS training allows staff to either collect cord blood “in utero”, prior to delivery of the placenta, or to collect “ex utero”, by draining cord blood from the placenta after it has been delivered.
CORDUS only archives collections which contain a minimum of one billion mononuclear cells, the highest collection threshold employed by any public bank as of Feb 2006. Smaller collections are used for research programs that collaborate with Dr. Kurtzberg.
CORDUS intends to expand their collection network, focusing on medical centers with the opportunity to obtain racially and ethnically diverse cord blood donors, to ensure that the greatest number of individuals seeking a matched transplant can be helped.
Coriell: New Jersey Cord Blood Bank at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.coriell.org/njcbb
PHONE: (856) 757-9752
STORAGE: Camden, NJ
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
New Jersey has the first statewide program of public cord blood banking. Numerous states have passed laws which mandate that expectant parents be educated about cord blood donation, but without funding for public banks which can accept the donations, the education accomplishes nothing. New Jersey has funded two banks to accept public donations, the Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program and the Coriell Institute.
Cryobanks International, Inc.
COLLECTS FOR: Research & Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: ANYWHERE!
INTERNET: www.cryo-intl.com
PHONE: 800-869-8608
STORAGE: Altamonte Springs, FL
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP, CRIR
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
Cryobanks International is one of only two banks that accepts donations mailed in from anywhere. They started as a private cord blood bank, but their current business is primarily oriented towards accepting donations.
CureSource / Medical University of South Carolina
COLLECTS FOR: Research only
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.curesource.net
PHONE: 1-877-723-2247
STORAGE: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
DESCRIPTION: The private bank CureSource has a partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina “to facilitate the transfer of technology into commercial applications”. CureSource provides MUSC with donated cord blood to be used for research. Parents are told that the donations go to research.
Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program at Community Blood Services
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: 70 mile radius of Paramus, New Jersey; plus 1 hospital in Delaware.
INTERNET: www.communitybloodservices.com/cord_blood_1_program.htm
PHONE: 866-SAVCORD
STORAGE: Paramus, NJ
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
New Jersey has the first statewide program of public cord blood banking. Numerous states have passed laws which mandate that expectant parents be educated about cord blood donation, but without funding for public banks which can accept the donations, the education accomplishes nothing. New Jersey has funded two banks to accept public donations, the Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program and the Coriell Institute.
Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program accepts cord blood donations from hospitals within a 70 mile radius. Unlike most public banks, which operate with a handful of hospitals, their list of participating hospitals encompasses over 45 hospitals. Among them, the following hospitals have on-site collection staff, which enables donors to sign up without pre-registration:
- St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, NJ
- Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, NJ
- The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ
- Mountainside Hospital in Montclair, NJ
- Trinitas Hospital in Elizabeth, NJ
- St. James Hospital in Newark, NJ
- St. Mary’s Hospital in Passaic, NJ
For more information, contact cordblood@bcrbc.org or read the Elie Katz Consent form.
The Elie Katz Program is also collecting at one out-of-area hospital, Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware. This collection site is possible through a partnership with the Brady Kohn Foundation.
Family Cord Blood Services
COLLECTS FOR: Family
COLLECTS FROM: Anywhere, but for a fee
INTERNET: www.familycordbloodservices.com
PHONE: 800-400-3430
STORAGE: Los Angeles, CA
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: ?
DESCRIPTION:
Family Cord Blood Services is primarily a private cord blood bank which allows enrolling parents to select a Public Donation OptionSM . In order to be eligible, the maternal blood test and the cord blood must both pass all the medical requirements for public donation, and the parents must agree to privately store the cord blood for 10 years before releasing it. This program costs an additional $250 on top of the regular private banking fee. The additional charge helps defray the $400 cost of HLA typing the cord blood so that it can be listed on a donor registry.
Gift of Life
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: Brooklyn, NY
INTERNET: www.giftoflife.org or www.jcord.org
PHONE: 561-988-0100
STORAGE: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, CRIR
DESCRIPTION: Gift of Life was founded in 1991 to seek a matching donor for leukemia patient Jay Feinberg. Since then, the charity has evolved into a vehicle for bone marrow donor recruitment, focused on the Jewish community. In 2005, they launched a Gift of Life cord blood program which collects from selected hospitals. The cost of the program is borne by Gift of Life fund-raising. The laboratory which processes and stores the cord blood is located at the University of Massachusetts; laboratory director is Philip Lowry, M.D.
There are publications on “HLA polymorphism” among Jews (go to PubMed and search on these keywords), which show that they are more likely to find a donor match in their own ethnic type, and next among other Mediterranean groups.
Ireland Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland Umbilical Cord Blood Program
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET:
PHONE: (216) 844-4723
STORAGE: Cleveland, OH
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW
DESCRIPTION:
ITxM: The Institute For Transfusion Medicine Cord Blood Services
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.givcord.org
PHONE: (877) 448-2673
STORAGE: Glenview, IL
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
J.P. McCarthy Cord Stem Cell Bank
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.karmanos.org
PHONE: (313) 576-8721
STORAGE: Detroit, MI
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
Kehila Cord<
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: Brooklyn, NY
INTERNET: [no website]
PHONE: 718-384-2332
STORAGE: Community Blood Services, Paramus, NJ
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW
DESCRIPTION: Kehila Cord (no website) is sponsored by Dor Yeshorim and serves the Chasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn. This is a community which has very little contact with the outside world; the program is promoted by word-of-mouth. Dor Yeshorim was founded in the 1980’s by Rabbi Josef Ekstein to offer genetic testing prior to arranged marriages, in an effort to prevent the spread of fatal hereditary diseases. Rabbi Ekstein lost four of his own chidren to Tay-Sachs disease. In 2005, Rabbi Shmuel Lefkowitz (718-218-8180) launched a drive in community synagogues to encourage parents to donate cord blood. The cord blood is processed and stored at Community Blood Services (part of NMDP bank network) in Paramus, NJ. The cost of the program is borne by both the Elie Katz Umbilical Cord Blood Program and Kehila Cord. For more information, contact Kehila Cord at 718-384-2332 (office: 429 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 1121).
LifebankUSA
COLLECTS FOR: Research & Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: ANYWHERE!
INTERNET: www.lifebankusa.com
PHONE: 1-877-LIFEBANKUSA (1-877-543-3226)
STORAGE: Cedar Knolls, NJ or Baton Rouge, LA
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: CRIR
DESCRIPTION:
LifebankUSA is one of only two banks that accepts donations mailed in from anywhere. LifebankUSA is a subsidiary of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics , a biotech pharmaceuticals company (Nasdaq: CELG). They primarily do business as a private cord blood bank. The LifebankUSA public donation program can be found under the “Medical Professionals” section of their website, but the best way to get information is to phone.
LIfebankUA is the first cord blood bank to routinely bank the stem cells from the placenta, in addition to the umbilical cord blood. This is a separate process. They recommend collecting blood from the umbilical cord in utero , then the placenta is delivered and cells are extracted from the placenta.
LifebankUSA encourages parents to donate the placenta, regardless of how they are banking the umbilical cord blood.
LifeCord
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: Selected hospitals in north Florida and south Alabama
INTERNET: www.lifesouth.org/lifecord/lifecord.htm
PHONE: (352) 224-1600 or 334-1000
STORAGE: Shands Hospital at Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
LifeCord is a program of LifeSouth Community Blood Centers, developed in cooperation with the University of Florida College of Medicine and the Shands at UF Stem Cell Laboratory. The medical director of LifeCord is John R. Wingard, M.D. As of Jan 2006, collections are accepted from:
- North Florida Regional Medical Center,
- Shands at AGH,
- Shands at UF,
- Shands at LakeShore,
- The Birthing Center,
- The Patient’s Corner,
- Baptist South and Baptist East Hospitals in Montgomery, Alabama
- East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Alabama — starting Feb 2006
M. D. Anderson Cord Blood Bank
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: Selected hospitals in Houston, Texas
INTERNET: http://www2.mdanderson.org/depts/oncolog/articles/05/9-sep/9-05-1.html
PHONE: 1-800-392-1611, Option #1
STORAGE: M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW
DESCRIPTION:
This bank has applied to be a participating member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) network of cord blood banks. They are already accredited under the international FACT/Netcord standards.
M. D. Anderson hospital has the largest stem cell transplantation program in the world, and in April 2005 they established a cord blood bank. The bank director is Elizabeth Shpall, M.D., and the laboratory director is John McMannis, Ph.D. The bank collects umbilical cords from consenting maternity patients at selected hospitals in the Houston area. As of Sept 2005, the bank had partnerships with the Women’s Hospital of Texas and with Ben Taub General Hospital, both of which are near M. D. Anderson.
Michigan Community Blood Centers Cord Blood Bank
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: 15 hospitals throughout Michigan
INTERNET: www.miblood.org/giving_blood/cordblood.html
PHONE: 1-866-642-5663 (ie: 866-MIBLOOD, option #2) or 616-233-8604
STORAGE: Grand Rapids, MI
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, CRIR
DESCRIPTION:
Michigan Cord Blood Bank will mail a collection kit to a qualifying donor if you register at least 12 weeks ahead of your due date and will be delivering at one of the 15 hospitals in the state at which Michigan Community Blood Services operates a blood bank. These hospitals are: Bay City, Clare, Grand Haven, Grand Rapids, Holland, Midland, Muskegon, Niles, Saginaw, St. Joseph, Traverse City, Zeeland. The parents bring the collection kit to the hospital at delivery time and their OB/Gyn or midwife performs the collection. The blood bank provides courier service to bring the cord blood to the central laboratory. The cord blood is processed with a procedure similar to that developed at the NY Blood Center.
NYBC National Cord Blood Program
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM: 5 hospitals in NY, VA, OH
INTERNET: www.NationalCordBloodProgram.org or ncbp@nybloodcenter.org
PHONE: (866) 767-NCBP (6227)
STORAGE: New York City, NY
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a founding member of the Netcord international cord blood bank network. The NYBC was the first cord blood processing laboratory to be accredited under the international FACT/Netcord standards.
The NY Blood Center, which in 2004 changed the name of its cord blood program to the “National Cord Blood Program”, is the world’s oldest and most prestigous public cord blood bank, having provided more than half the cord blood used in transplants around the world. For more information, contact Melissa Penn at (212) 570-3014 or read the NY Blood Center Consent form.
The National Cord Blood Program collects from only five U.S. hospitals, listed in chronological order:
- Brooklyn Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
- North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset (Long Island), NY
- Inova Hospital, Fairfax, VA
- New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, NY
- University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH
Puget Sound Blood Center
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.psbc.org/cordblood
PHONE: (206) 292-1896
STORAGE: Seattle, WA
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
SaneronCCEL
COLLECTS FOR: Research only
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.saneron-ccel.com
PHONE: 813-977-7664
STORAGE: Tampa, FL
DESCRIPTION: Saneron CCEL Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology R&D company focused on neurological cell therapy. The private cord blood bank Cryo-Cell International owns 43.2% of Saneron CCEL. Saneron CCEL has a research partnership (announced Dec 2004) with the University of South Florida to develop treatments for spinal cord injury using donated cord blood units.
Sibling Donor Cord Blood Program at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants for Siblings
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.chori.org/siblingcordblood
PHONE: (510) 450-7605
STORAGE: Oakland, CA
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES:
DESCRIPTION:
South Texas Blood & Tissue Center
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET:
PHONE: (800) 292-5534 (Option 8)
STORAGE: San Antonio, Texas
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES:
DESCRIPTION:
St. Louis Cord Blood Bank
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.slcbb.org
PHONE: (888) 453-2673
STORAGE: St. Louis, MO
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network.
St. Louis Cord Blood Bank accepts cord blood donations from hospitals within a 150 mile radius. Their list of participating hospitals encompasses about 30 hospitals.
Stemcyte
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants & Research
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.stemcyte.com
PHONE: (866) STEMCYTE
STORAGE: Arcadia, CA
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES: BMDW, NMDP
DESCRIPTION:
This bank is a Participating Member of the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) cord blood bank network. Stemcyte is accredited under the international FACT/Netcord standards.
Stemcyte is a for-profit company in California which collects cord blood donations. Their list of participating hospitals covers eight hospitals (one is in Ohio). Stemcyte also operates the national cord blood bank of Taiwan, whose units are also listed in the NMDP. StemCyte Family is a subsidiary of Stemcyte which offers private banking services.
The StemCyte processing method is different from most cord blood banks. The proprietary “StemCyte Stem Cell Optimization Process” was developed during the 1990’s by researchers participating in the federally-funded COrd Blood Transplantation study (COBLT). The StemCyte processing method stores plasma-depleted whole blood, rather than separating mononuclear cells by red cell depletion. StemCyte claims that their units have 90% recovery of mononuclear cells.
Stemcyte is collaborating with Wise Young, Ph.D., M.D., a reknowned neuroscientist at the Rutgers University W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuoscience. They will conudct a clinical trial on the use of cord blood to repair Spinal Cod Injury. The trial will accrue 600 patients in Taiwan.
University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank
COLLECTS FOR: Transplants
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.coloradocord.org
PHONE: (303) 724-1306
STORAGE: Aurora, CO
TRANSPLANT REGISTRIES:
DESCRIPTION:
University of Iowa’s Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank
COLLECTS FOR: Research only
COLLECTS FROM:
INTERNET: www.uiowa.edu
PHONE: 319-353-3747
STORAGE: Iowa City, IA
DESCRIPTION: The University of Iowa has started (April 2004) a program to collect cord blood donations specifically for disease research, not transplants. Parents are told that the donations go to research.