National Marrow Donor Program Overview

The National Marrow Donor Program is a nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operates the federally funded registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors in the United States. These potential donors, numbering more than 6.8 million as of October 2007, have volunteered to donate hematopoietic cells to patients in need of a hematopoietic cell transplant. Since its founding in 1986 through December 3, 2007, the NMDP celebrated 30,000 successful transplants....