Connecting Patients with Donors

Bone marrow and cord blood transplants are a life-changing treatment for people with leukemia, lymphoma and many other diseases. For many patients, a transplant may be the best — and only — hope for a cure.

When patients learn they need a transplant, they turn first to their families to find a donor. But 70% of those patients won’t find a suitable match in their family. They depend on bone marrow or cord blood donors like you.

The world’s largest registry of donors

To do so, we not only recruit committed donors, we spearhead the entire donor search and matching process. Through our Registry, searching patients have access to: 

• 7 million potential bone marrow donors
• 70,000 cord blood units donated by parents after their baby’s birth
• 4 million additional donors and cord blood units, thanks to our partnerships around the world

And we are working to expand the size and diversity of our Registry every day. Families, civic, community, corporate and faith-based organizations partner with us to raise awareness about the need for donors, especially from diverse racial and ethnic communities.

Thanks to these efforts, the likelihood of finding a match has improved for patients from all racial and ethnic groups.

30,000 transplants

But even with a Registry of millions, there are many patients waiting and hoping for a match.

That is why we need you. With your support, more patients can access the treatment they so desperately need.

Be part of the solution

• Join the Registry – Become a bone marrow donor.
• Make a financial contribution – Cover tissue typing costs and support patients.
• Get involved — Sign up for updates on how you can help us change lives.
• Engage your organization – Your partnership with the NMDP provides an opportunity to engage in a program that saves lives.
• Recruit donors – Individuals and families can make a difference.

Do it because you care. Do it because you can.