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- EIN 20-8376689
- (216) 896-0360
- 25001 Emery Road Suite 225 Cleveland OH 44128-5626 USA
- www.clevelandcordblood.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Cancer, Cancer Research, Health
Mission: This organization is dedicated to collecting, storing, and distributing, high-quality cord blood units for clinical transplantation and medical research. The organization has been certified as a unique regional component in the national network of cord blood banks promoted by the federal government's health resources services administration to provide an adequate supply of high-quality hematopoietic stem cells.
Programs: The foundation has been established to harvest, process, and utilize umbilical cord blood ("ucb") stem cells for clinical transplantation, medical research, and distribution, and to provide education to physicians and the public at large on advances in the utilization of ucb-derived stem cells for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
beginning in 2014, the foundation performs laboratory research in cell therapy with four studies currently in progress.
the cord blood center is establishing a cell therapy incubator (cti) to be used both by internal researchers and outside organizations to develop new stem cell therapies using cord blood.
the foundation provides grant funding from time to time for medical research in the areas of normal stem cells and their uses in cancer treatments. There were no grants during 2017.