Cord blood is becoming more and more widely used as an additional transplant option for patients in need of treatment. These days The Anthony Nolan Trust’s tissue match searches include both bone marrow registers and cord blood banks worldwide.
The Anthony Nolan Trust is ideally placed to create the cord blood bank of the future, enabling the UK to advance to the forefront of this specialist medical field. 
- We have a worldwide reputation as leading experts in managing donor registers, and in tissue typing, donor care and research.
- We are the UK’s major transplant provider and importer of cord blood.
- And we are engaged at the leading edge of the development of cord blood banks and research.
There are established cord blood banks in Europe, Japan and Northern America and for the last five years The Anthony Nolan Trust has been sourcing cord blood from abroad as an addition to its register of adult bone marrow donors.
We aim to establish the UK’s first integral national Cord Blood Programme – both a cord blood bank and a research institute - which will complement our bone marrow register.
‘This could become the leading cord blood programme in the world – combining cord blood and research with donor registers, it is a unique model.’
Professor Alejandro Madrigal
Director of Research, The Anthony Nolan Trust
