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'That may well be the future': Companies have poured $8.5 billion into creating a new version of a cutting-edge, highly personalized cancer treatment

May 2019 MEDIA COVERAGE

Wendy Fullem, a 54-year-old administrator at a New Jersey college, hadn't been feeling well for some time when, in fall 2016, she was diagnosed with leukemia. Leukemia is a type of blood cancer that comes in many forms. There were about 60,000 new cases in the US last year, and one treatment option is a bone marrow transplant, a decades-old scientific procedure that has potential to treat upwards of 70 different diseases, including many types of cancer.

A second chance at life

May 2019 MEDIA COVERAGE

When Ryan Corning ’18 joined the Gift of Life Marrow Registry the summer prior to coming to Elon to study mathematics, he never fully expected that he would one day become a donor. Then during his sophomore year in college, he got a call saying he was a match for someone who had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.

Gift of Life Marrow Registry Grand Opening

May 2019 MEDIA COVERAGE

WPBF television covers the opening of the new Gift of Life Marrow Registry Headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla. The site also houses a state-of-the-art, registry-integrated stem cell collection center.

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New stem cell collection center opens

May 2019 MEDIA COVERAGE

The Gift of Life Marrow Registry has opened a new stem cell collection center in Boca Raton. Officials say the new location will make it easier and faster than ever before for donors to save the lives of patients worldwide dealing with blood cancers. The new 22,00 square-foot headquarters becomes the first marrow registry to integrate a state-of-the-art, on -site stem cell collection into its features.

Boca Raton Headquarters Creating Jobs and Curing Blood Cancer

May 2019 MEDIA COVERAGE

The Business Development Board of Palm Beach County (BDB), in cooperation with the City of Boca Raton, is pleased to announce that Gift of Life Marrow Registry, a company saving lives for those suffering from certain blood cancers by matching marrow and stem cell donors with those in need, has officially moved into its new 17,465 sq. ft. global headquarters for Bone Marrow Registry & Collection Center.

Stem cell donor meets recipient at Gift of Life walk

Apr 2019 MEDIA COVERAGE

NBC Boston television report on the Gift of Life 5k Run and Walk, including the moment when a heroic stem cell donor met his recipient, a man who had been battling blood cancer.

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