History/Milestone

1988
- First successful transplant of umbilical cord blood performed on Matthew Farrow, a 5 year old American boy in France suffering from Fanconi's anemia.
1990
-First Umbilical cord blood transplant performed in USA
1998
-First autologous transplant of privately banked cord blood. The patient develop neuroblastoma and was transplanted with her own cord blood. Over 600 Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant performed to date worldwide.
2001
-The number of cord blood units banked in public registries in the US and Europe is more than 65,000.
2002
-American academy of neurology press release announces that stem cells transplant can slow the progress of multiple sclerosis.