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Be The Match is a non-profit organization that delivers cures to patients in need of life-saving blood stem cell therapy. The organization operates the national Be The Match Registry®, the world’s largest and most diverse listing of potential stem cell donors. As trusted leaders in advancing stem cell therapy, Be The Match also provides ground-breaking research, innovative technologies, patient support, and education so even more lives can be saved.

Company History

When their 10-year-old daughter Laura was diagnosed with leukemia, Robert Graves, D.V.M., and his wife Sherry were ready to do anything they could to save her. Desperate to save her life, they turned to alternative treatment options. They agreed to try the first ever bone marrow transplant for a leukemia patient from an unrelated donor.

Laura received her transplant in 1979. And it worked. The success of the treatment inspired the Graves to give other families the same hope for a cure. Thanks to Dr. Graves, other patient families, doctors, congressional support and funding from the U.S. Navy, a national registry of volunteers willing to donate bone marrow was born.

Many people wondered who would step forward to donate marrow. Within the first year the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry (as we were called then) was established, an astonishing 10,000 people answered the call. We conducted our first transplant as the National Marrow Donor Program® in 1987 when Diane Walters of Wisconsin donated marrow to 6-year-old Brooke Ward of North Carolina. It wasn’t long before the program took off worldwide from a tiny office at the American Red Cross in St. Paul, Minn.

Notable Accomplishments / Recognition

1990 - Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Dr. E. Donnall Thomas for discoveries in cellular transplantation
1997 - First use of peripheral blood stem cells in NMDP transplants
1998 - Launched umbilical cord blood transplant program
2001 - Built the NMDP Sample Repository, one of the world’s largest tissue sample storage facilities used for medical research
2004 - Partnered with the Medical College of Wisconsin to create the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research® (CIBMTR), our research program
2012 - Completed more than 700 peer-reviewed publications based on research conducted
2013 - Facilitated more than 2,800 transplants for patients over age 50 (45% of total transplants)
2016 - Launched Be The Match BioTherapies® to extend our services and expertise to organizations developing and delivering cellular therapies to help more patients
2020 - We have facilitated more than 100,000 blood stem cell transplants, and 6,426 transplants last year to give patients hope for a future.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, retirement, educational assistance, and commuter-related benefits.

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  • 16 days ago

    Vice President, CIBMTR & Clinical Services (CCS)

    NMDP - MN, United States
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    The Vice President, CIBMTR Clinical Services (CCS) is a mission driven business leader who partners with the CIBMTR physician CoScientific Director and NMDP executives to translate scientific vision into operational and financial results. The VP owns the CCS business strategy and portfolio execution and management, data operations, the research biorepository, and related shared services. Success in this role accelerates high quality, efficient evidence generation and catalyzes mission driven ...

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