Sydney Cord Blood Bank
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The Sydney Cord Blood Bank (SCBB)
The Sydney Cord Blood Bank (SCBB) was established at the Sydney Children's Hospital in 1995 and forms part of a national network of cord blood banks sited in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. The network collects and banks cord blood from voluntary donors for anonymous use by patients needing a stem cell transplant.
The Sydney Cord Blood Bank is licensed by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and accredited by the Foundation for Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) to ensure the quality, safety and security of the cord blood units.
The SCBB has collection centres at the following maternity hospitals:
- Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick
- Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Randwick
- Royal Prince Alfred Women's and Babies, Camperdown
- St George Private Hospital, Kogarah
- Royal Darwin Hospital, Northern Territory for Indigenous donations
Donating mothers need to give an informed consent and agree to donate some blood for infectious disease screening around the time of delivery and six months later. Mothers also have to provide an infection risk history to screen for infections such as Hepatitis and HIV, and for risk of transmitting genetic disorders. Mothers with a history of infection or genetic blood disorders are therefore excluded from donating cord blood. The baby's and mother's health is monitored via follow-up contact with the mother after donation to ensure no transmission of genetic disorders. All the information provided remains confidential.
Collected cord blood units are processed to reduce their volume, frozen and stored in liquid nitrogen vapour at or below minus 180°C. The cord blood is identified with only a unit number and the donor remains anonymous.
The SCBB has collected over 10,000 cord blood units. The tissue typing is listed and available worldwide through the website of Bone Marrow Donors World Wide (BMDW) http://www.bmdw.org
Senior Staff:
- Director: Pamela Clark
- Quality Manager: Simon Cooper
- Production Manager: April Goodear
- Administrative Officer: Isabel Pinto
More information on SCBB's services, how to donate cord blood or how to search and obtain a cord blood for transplant is available in other pages of this website or phone 02 9382 0371.
Contact Details
Physical Site:
Sydney Cord Blood Bank
Level 3, Clinical Sciences Bld
Prince of Wales Hospital
High Street, Randwick, 2031
Australia
Tel: +61+2+9382-0371
Fax: +61+2+9382-0372
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