'Cord Blood Connect' Registration Now Open

Fifteen organizations collaborating this year on CBA-hosted congress

Registration is open for Cord Blood Connect, the international congress that embraces all components of the cord blood community – public and private banking, clinical and laboratory investigations, manufacturing, administration, training and education.

Convening Sept. 13-15 in Miami Beach, the congress will again have concurrent tracks for clinical and translational science and investigations, as well as education and training for cord blood bank administrative, technical and support personnel. CBA individual members can register for $510, saving $200 compared to the non-member rate.

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Hal Broxmeyer To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Will present keynote address at this year’s international congress

The leadership of the Cord Blood Association is delighted to announce that Hal E. Broxmeyer, PhD, will be the recipient of the association’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr. Broxmeyer is internationally recognized for his pioneering studies of human umbilical cord blood as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for transplantation. He was part of the team for the world’s first cord blood transplant. Work in his laboratory at the Indiana University School of medicine has helped establish the field of clinical cord blood transplantation.

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