March 2011 - Posts

• Georgia Health Sciences Foundation Receives First Newborn Possibilities Fund Award Grant Posted: Mar 31, 2011

  We’ve written about the Newborn Possibilities Fund (NPF) in the blog before.  Today we are proud to announce that the first award grant has been made to support... Tags: cord blood, stem cells, Cerebral Palsy, cord blood stem cells, ScienceandResearch, NewsandUpdates, Dr. James Carroll, Georgia Health Sciences Foundation, newborn possibilities fund, Georgia Health Sciences University

• Study Published in Neurosurgery Demonstrates Safety of Stem Cell Therapy for Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Posted: Mar 23, 2011

  Results from a clinical trial examining bone marrow stem cells as a medical intervention for pediatric traumatic brain injury were published in the March issue of the journal Neurosurgery. This is the first published clinical trial using mononuclear cells (MNCs) to treat traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans. It demonstrates that infusion of autologous... Tags: cord blood, stem cell, tramatic brain injury, cord blood stem cells, ScienceandResearch, NewsandUpdates, Neurosurgery

• Nearly 200 Miles Across the Desert - Winning! Posted: Mar 15, 2011

  They took to the course.  They conquered it and they won.  They didn’t come in first place, or even third place, but they did reach an impressive fundraising mark with pledges surpassing $13,000, all going to the Newborn Possibilities Fund. The twenty-four Cord Blood Registry employees who ran a relay race across 197... Tags: cord blood, CBR, stem cell, newborn possibilities program, Ragnar Relay

• Newborn Possibilities Program Reaches Its First Goal! Posted: Mar 09, 2011

  We’re excited to announce that the Newborn Possibilities pilot collection program at Tucson Medical Center has reached its first-year goal of collecting umbilical cord blood stem cells for 750 newborns. The cord blood collection program was launched by Cord Blood Registry... Tags: cord blood, stem cell, newborn possibilities program, InsideCBR, NewsandUpdates, Tuscon Medical Center