Join Us in San Diego: Cord Blood Connect at AABB 2025

Join us October 25–28 in San Diego for the 2025 Cord Blood Connect meeting, held in conjunction with the AABB Annual Meeting. This exciting collaboration brings together leaders in cord blood and transfusion medicine for education, research, and networking opportunities. CBA members can register at the AABB member rate using the exclusive code emailed directly to them.

Ready to save $300? Here's how: 

  • Visit the registration portal
  • Log in with your AABB account, or create a free account (membership not required)
  • Enter exclusive code in the "Registration Code" field at the beginning or on the payment page at checkout to receive the AABB member rate

Register by July 30 to save $300 with early-bird pricing! Need help? Contact [email protected].

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Registration is required to make a hotel reservation at one of the hotels where AABB has secured discounted room blocks. View hotel information here.


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Catch Up on the Latest CBA Newsletter

Read the April 2025 CBA Newsletter for a message from the CBA President, regulatory updates, inspiring cord blood transplant stories, industry partner highlights, and more!

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Watch Now: CBA Webinar Recording

Missed the live session on Outcomes in Pediatric Cord Blood Transplant for Malignant and Non-Malignant Disease?

Watch the webinar recording featuring Cary A. Martinez, MD, and John N. Colgan, MD, DCH, as they discuss the latest outcomes in pediatric cord blood transplants. Gain expert insights on the necessity of transplants, outcomes in minority populations, and recent data on Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) and other non-malignant disorders.

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Benefits of Membership

Join Cord Blood Association

The CBA is an international, non-profit organization that promotes both public and family cord blood banking, with the objectives of saving lives, improving health and changing medicine.

Our priorities are advocacy, quality products and services, market expansion, research and development, and public and professional education. If you share these interests, you are cordially invited to join with us.

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Information for Expectant Parents

Parent Information for Cord Blood

Expectant parents are faced with important decisions, even before their baby is born. One of the most important is a life-altering decision about whether to bank their baby’s umbilical cord blood, or donate it to help others. If the precious stem cells in cord blood are not banked, they are discarded as medical waste.

There’s no one choice that’s right for all parents. But health care professionals and parents have developed guidelines to help with the decision.

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