Cord Blood Connect: Entire Congress Is Available Online
Access the presentations, panel discussions, Q&A sessions, e-posters, virtual exhibits
Despite the handicap of not being able to assemble for an in-person meeting, the cord blood community worldwide came together for a virtual congress on Sept. 10 and 17. Live-streaming of the 2020 Cord Blood Connect international congress is now history, but all parts of the congress – recordings of the scientific and technical sessions, panel discussions, Q&A sessions, e-posters and virtual exhibits – are available for on-demand viewing. Read more
Three New Directors for Cord Blood Association
President Joanne Kurtzberg and other officers re-elected for coming year The Cord Blood Association has three new directors: Marcie Finney of the Cleveland Cord Blood Center, Dr. Jonas Wang of StemCyte, and Dr. Robert Wynn of Manchester Children’s Hospital. The new directors were elected at the annual meeting of the CBA Board of Directors. Read moreBenefits of MembershipThe 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. Join TodayInformation for Expectant ParentsExpectant 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. Learn More |