Historical facts

Historical facts

Year 2012. 30 000 successful cord blood transplantations. 

Year 2011. 19 000 successful cord blood transplantations.

Year 2010. 15 000 successful cord blood transplantations. 

Year 2009. 14 000 successful cord blood transplantations. 

Year 2008. 12 000 successful cord blood transplantations.

Year 2007. Nobel Prize for Sir Martin J. Evans, Mario R. Capecch, Oliver Smithies for stem cell research and achievements.

Year 2006. 8000 successful cord blood transplantations.

Year 1997. First Cord blood stem cell bank in Europe open in Germany, „Vita34“.  

Year 1997. First stem cell transplantation „ex vivo“ for 46 year-old man with chronic myeloid leukemia.

Year 1995. First Family Cord blood bank in USA, „Cord Blood Registry“. 

Year 1993. First non-relative cord blood stem cell transplantation, Duke University, USA. 

Year 1992. Establishment of first non-relative cord blood center in New York - "The New York blood Centre“.

Year 1990. First cord blood stem cell transplantation in USA.  

Year 1988. First successful cord blood transplantation for 12 year-old boy with Fanconi anemia, France. 

Year 1983.  Suggested alternative for bone marrow transplantation - cord blood stem cells. 

Year 1980. Saving fatally irradiated mouse (human cord blood stem cell experiments in vitro)