Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 19, 2026

Bone Marrow Transplantation Platform to Investigate the Role of Dendritic Cells in Graft-versus-Host Disease
Published on: March 17, 2020
[World's registry of bone marrow donors]
Esma Cecuk-Jelicić1, Vesna Kerhin-Brkljacić, Zorana Grubic
1Zavod za tipizaciju tkiva, Klinicki bolnicki centar Zagreb, Zagreb, Hrvatska. ececuk@kbc-zagreb.hr
Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW) represent continuing efforts to collect HLA phenotypes of volunteer stem cell donors and cord blood units, being responsible for co-ordination of their worldwide distribution. Participants are 59 stem cell donor registries from 43 countries, and 40 cord blood banks from 25 countries. BMDW started as an initiative of the Immunobiology Working Party of the European Group of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) in 1988. In February 1989, the first edition was distributed, which contained donor files of eight registries with a total of 155,000 volunteer stem cell donors. The current number of donors and cord blood units in the BMDW database is 12,092,374.
Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW) represent continuing efforts to collect HLA phenotypes of volunteer stem cell donors and cord blood units, being responsible for co-ordination of their worldwide distribution. Participants are 59 stem cell donor registries from 43 countries, and 40 cord blood banks from 25 countries. BMDW started as an initiative of the Immunobiology Working Party of the European Group of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) in 1988. In February 1989, the first edition was distributed, which contained donor files of eight registries with a total of 155,000 volunteer stem cell donors. The current number of donors and cord blood units in the BMDW database is 12,092,374.
Related Concept Videos
Bone Marrow Sampling and Transplants
The transplant begins with high doses of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, which aim to destroy the...
Blood Transfusion
Blood Transfusion Overview
A blood transfusion is a medical procedure used to replace blood lost due to injury, surgery, or to treat conditions such as anemia or cancer. During a transfusion, donor blood is...
Tissue Transplantation
The Biology of Tissue Transplantation
The biology of tissue transplantation hinges on the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) molecules. These molecules...
Kidney Transplant I: Introduction
Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cells

