Stories

Seeking ‘Hope4Adam,’ they found it

Dec 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

When 31-year-old Adam Krief started chemotherapy this past summer for a rare form of blood cancer, he knew it wouldn’t save his life; it could only buy him time.

How a Penn junior is working to fight blood cancer through a new club

Nov 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

College Junior Madeline Moore became the Campus Ambassador of the Gift of Life program and leads the club at Penn with six other members who hold two to three cheek swab drives a month.

Israeli cancer patient meets her lifesaving US bone marrow donor

Nov 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

A former American participant of a Birthright trip this week met the Israeli woman suffering from cancer whose life he saved during his visit. Peter Schottenfels visited Israel for the first time in 2007 on a Birthright educational tour.

SUNY students seek bone marrow donors

Oct 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

A SUNY Oneonta graduate who started a successful on-campus bone marrow registry drive two years ago will return to Oneonta this week to help with the third installment of the event, organizers said Monday.

Teaneck Natives Serve as Gift of Life Campus Ambassadors

Oct 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

With a non-profit grant from LinkedIn, Gift of Life recruited its first eight ambassadors in 2014. The idea behind the Campus Ambassador Program, or CAP, is that the Gift of Life representative is a fellow college student, who recruits his or her peers.

Largest Q-tip breaks a record for World Marrow Donor Day

Sep 2016 MEDIA COVERAGE

Having decided to achieve an incredibly large record to promote World Marrow Donor Day earlier this month, the Gift of Life Marrow Registry set out to create a huge Q-tip as the symbol for the cause as cotton wool buds are used to swab the inner cheek, which gathers cells of potential donors.