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Each year over 100,000 Americans are diagnosed with blood cancers.
Currently there are over 70,000 African Americans with sickle cell disease
Unlike private cord blood banks, the JPF program will serve anyone of any age in need of cord blood. |
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Our Mission The Joanne Pang Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization, is passionately committed to increasing the number of umbilical cord blood units available for life saving transplants.. We are raising funds required to launch the first public cord blood collection program in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our cord blood collection program, in partnership with M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s public cord blood bank, will be the first public collection program to serve the San Francisco Bay Area. While there are cord blood banks in Northern California, they are private, for profit, and unable to accept public donations. Unlike private cord blood banks, we will accept cord blood from all qualified donors and make all accepted units part of a national registry accessible to all. To successfully maintain this program we must raise $250,000. This will enable us to educate patients and their doctors on the public donation option, screen and process each applicant, provide cord blood collection kits to the donor and pay shipping costs. The vast majority of cord blood stem cells available from the approximately 100,000 births annually in the Bay Area are discarded as biological waste. The goal of the JPF program is to capture these life saving stem cells and bank them for future use. The genetic diversity of the Bay Area lends itself well to achieving the JPF’s goal of adding to the national inventory of cord blood. Additional Goals In addition to facilitating public cord blood collection, the Joanne Pang Foundation is dedicated to promoting education and awareness of various blood and marrow diseases, supporting the advancement of clinical research and providing patient assistance and family support. Included in these goals is the long term hope of opening a public cord blood bank in San Francisco. |
