BloodCenter of Wisconsin's Marrow Donor Program is an affiliate of the National Marrow Donor Program and serves as the local recruitment center for the national Be The Match Registry.
BloodCenter of Wisconsin was actually a pioneer in the field of matching unrelated marrow donors and recipients several years before the creation of a national registry. BloodCenter of Wisconsin’s first transplant with marrow from a donor unrelated to a patient was performed in 1981. BloodCenter of Wisconsin provided the National Marrow Donor Program’s very first marrow donation on December 15, 1987. The donor was from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The patient came from Raleigh, North Carolina, and The transplant was performed at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Since 1981, over 400 transplants have been facilitated by BloodCenter of Wisconsin. Wisconsin donors have provided marrow to patients in 40 states and 14 countries.
