Trial Information

A Centralized Cord Blood Registry to Facilitate Allogeneic, Unrelated Donor Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation

The NMDP Cord Blood registry is organized as a network of member cord blood banks and
transplant centers whose interactions are managed by the NMDP's Center for Cord Blood.
Banks agree to comply with uniform collection, screening, testing and storage requirements.
Upon approval of membership, cord blood banks submit detailed information on each stored CBU
for registration into a proprietary computer system. A transplant center, working on behalf
of potential recipients, submits search requests to the NMDP and receives electronic reports
detailing potentially suitable CBUs. From these reports, the transplant center selects a
CBU(s) for further testing, which includes at a minimum confirmation of the CBUs Human
Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing data. Upon final selection of the desired CBU for
transplantation, arrangements are made for timely shipment of the unit to the transplant
center. Following transplantation, recipient outcome data are submitted by the transplant
center for addition to the study database.