The NMDP Network of Centers

The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is the hub of a global transplant Network that connects more than 450 leading centers worldwide, including:

• Transplant centers – hospitals that care for transplant patients
• U.S. donor centers and recruitment groups and international donor centers – our local representatives who educate and support donors throughout the process, from joining the NMDP Registry through donation
• Cord blood banks that recruit cord blood donations, work with hospitals to collect cord blood, then process and store it
• Collection centers – hospitals and blood centers that perform bone marrow collections
• Apheresis centers – hospitals and blood centers that perform peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collections
• Laboratories that do the testing to determine donors’ tissue types and add them to our Registry
• Repositories that store blood and cell samples from donors on the NMDP Registry to enable quick follow-up testing when a donor is identified as a possible match