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Become
a Bone Marrow Donor - The HLA Registry |
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“Dedicated
to the Recruitment of Voluntary Marrow |
and Peripheral
Blood Stem Cell Donors”
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| From its inception, the mission
of The HLA Registry has been to help patients with
leukemia, aplastic anemia and other potentially fatal
blood diseases in their searches to find unrelated,
compatible donors. |
| Thanks to the combined efforts
of The HLA Registry and many caring people, the registry
is responsible for registering more than 200,000
potential donors in its data base and for more than
600 bone
marrow and stem
cell transplants. |
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Our Mission is to help
miracles happen. |
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| HISTORY OF THE HLA REGISTRY |
| The HLA Registry, founded as
the HLA Registry Foundation, Inc. in 1986 by Elie
Katz, Ph.D, D.Sc., began operation as a non-profit
501(c) (3) in June 1987. (The acronym ‘HLA’ stands
for human leukocyte antigens, the genetic information
encoded on white blood cells.) The mission of The
HLA Registry is to assist patients with potentially
fatal blood diseases in finding compatible, unrelated
donors for life-saving bone
marrow transplants, and to help patients and
their families raise funds for HLA tissue-typing. |
| Headquartered in River Edge,
New Jersey, with a satellite office in Windham, NH,
The HLA
Registry is one of the world’s leading
independent bone marrow donor registries. It is also
one of the largest donor registries of the congressionally
sanctioned National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP),
a network of 100 donor centers throughout the United
States. |
| With more than 200,000 potential
donors registered in its database, The HLA Registry
has accounted for a significant percentage of the
more than five million donors currently registered
with the National Marrow Donor Program. The HLA Registry
actively recruits donors from all over the United
States and, in particular, from the northeastern
region of the country. |
| The HLA Registry has helped
hundreds of families with their searches for donors
and has been responsible for successfully matching
patients with donors resulting in more than 600 transplants
since its establishment. |
| Community Blood Services
Announces Merger (August 2002) |
| The
HLA Registry merged with Community Blood Services
in August 2002. |
| Founded
in 1953, Community Blood Services is located
at 970 Linwood Avenue West in Paramus, New Jersey.
It provides blood and blood products to 37 hospitals
in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris and Passaic
counties in New Jersey, as well as to hospitals
in New York City and Orange and Rockland counties
in New York. |
According
to Dr. Dennis Todd, president and CEO of Community
Blood Services, there are clear benefits to the
merger. “The existing information and technology
and finance infrastructure of the blood center
will be an immense benefit to The HLA Registry
operation,” said Dr. Todd. |
| The
collaboration with donor recruitment is particularly
crucial, since the New York metropolitan area
has been experiencing one of the longest blood
shortages in its history. |
A
leader in transfusion medicine, Community Blood
Services, a member of the American Association
of Blood Banks (AABB) and America’s Blood
Centers (ABC), offers a wide array of innovative
services, including the Elie Katz Umbilical Cord
Blood Program, the Rare Blood Donor Registry,
the Frozen Rare Blood Depository and the HLA
Platelet Laboratory. |
As
a division of Community Blood Services, The HLA
Registry will work closely with the blood center
in the recruitment of both blood donors and bone
marrow donors to help people battling life-threatening
diseases. |
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Contact
Us |
The
HLA Registry, Community Blood Services |
800
Kinderkamack Road, Oradell,
NJ 07649 |
Fax: 201-265-2032 |
1-201-705-1799 |
Spanish
201-705-1639 |
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800-336-3363 |
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