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Fran Verter’s blog on World Cord Blood Day
Today on World Cord Blood Day 2018, we look back on 30 years of growth since the first cord blood transplant in 1988, and we look forward to new applications of cord blood from the frontiers of research. The charity Leukaemia and Myeloma Research UK is one of the...
It’s World Cord Blood Day on 15th November, and we need your help!
Thursday 15th November is World Cord Blood Day which highlights the importance of cord blood and its benefits to treat over 80 different diseases, such as leukaemia, lymphoma and sickle cell anaemia. We are organising a number of initiatives throughout the day. If...
Captain’s Charity Day for Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK
We are very grateful for the outstanding efforts of all our fundraisers who are the mainstay of our charity. Here’s how Grant and his local golf club in Bedfordshire have been helping us. In memory of my father I chose to raise funds for Leukaemia & Myeloma...
Ben’s head shave in memory of his father
Our story – When Ben was 15 years old, he wanted to do something in memory of his dad who died from Leukaemia when he was just two years old. When Karen was pregnant with her first child, her husband Danny was diagnosed with Leukaemia. Despite receiving a programme...
A stem cell treatment to help leukaemia patients avoid potentially deadly infections
Some leukemia patients at Norton Healthcare in the US whose immune systems are weakened by chemotherapy now have access to a new stem cell-based treatment that researchers hope will prevent potentially deadly infections. If successful, the treatment will not just help...
Storing our daughter’s stem cells for the future in the Model Cell Biobank
This is Clavy’s story, one of the first clients of Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK’s Model Cell Biobank. Clavy’s story “I have three children; my son who is now five years old, and two daughters aged three and four months old. My son spent the first two years...
Should parents bank stem cells from their baby’s umbilical cord?
‘BEST INVESTMENT EVER’: Paige, left, with her parents Carla and Kyle Poppleton and little brother Tyler Wrecked a major organ? There’s no transplant waiting list, as a new one can simply be grown in a lab. Cancer has become a minor annoyance, Alzheimer’s can be...
Research funding granted
Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK has made a grant of £6,600 to help fund innovative new research into Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). Dr Paul Hole, a Senior Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at Cardiff University*, has been awarded a grant by Leukaemia & Myeloma...
Model Cell Biobank’s First Client
The Model Cell Biobank is the first fully-funded service for eligible families which offers parents the opportunity to store their baby’s cord blood for 25 years in case the child, or another member of the family, needs them in the future. This is a case study from...
Support while you shop – Bags of Help from Tesco
We’re pleased to announce that LMR UK has been successfully selected to be part of the ‘Tesco Bags of Help’ scheme, which could raise up to £4,000 for the charity. Tesco’s local community grant scheme uses the money raised by the sale of carrier bags to fund thousands...
