Outstanding! This gracious and generous support is essential for advancing research that continues to improve the effectiveness of blood stem cell treatments. Improving the use of scarce blood stem cells is an area of research in particular need of greater effort. It is not widely known that sometimes these precious donations also have too few stem cells. Twelve to 18% of children who receive cord blood transplants do not have good outcomes, because unbeknown to their doctors, their transplants had too few stem cells. Even in highly effective adult blood stem cell transplant therapy, depending on the transplant center, 5-27% of initial treatments are insufficient, requiring that donors return for more intensive and harsher stem cell collections. Research to provide an accurate differential count for the critical stem cells in treatments would reduce or prevent these persistent devastating treatment failures. Knowing the differential stem cell count of scarce treatment samples might also allow some of them to be used to treat more than one patient, which would reduce the donor scarcity problem even further.
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Earlier this month, we gathered for an evening of inspiration and hope at our annual NMDP Gala in Los Angeles. Our generous supporters gave like someone's life depended on it, raising an incredible $235,000 to help more patients access the life-saving cell therapies they need. We extend a special thank you to our presenting sponsors, Kilter Films and the Hurst family, for their unwavering support.
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