Marrow
Every year, thousands of people worldwide with diseases like leukaemia reach a stage in their illness where their only hope of survival is a bone marrow stem cell transplant.
Trouble is, successful transplants depend on careful matching betwen the donor and recipient.
Sometimes a family member makes a good stem cell donor, but when they don't, doctors must turn to organisations like the Anthony Nolan Trust. They maintain a register of people who are willing to donate their stem cells.
The more people on the Register, the more likely it is that a suitable match can be found for everyone who needs a transplant.
To join, all it takes is to fill in a form, give a simple blood sample and to make the commitment that if the time came, you would give a little of your bone marrow to save a life.
Marrow groups operate in universities across the UK - our aim is to offer every student the chance to join the stem cell register. Students make ideal candidates - they're young, they're healthy and - as a population - they're ethnically diverse.
Marrow works with the Anthony Nolan Trust to recruit potential donors onto their stem cell register.
There are Marrow Groups at most universities with a medical school, to find out more visit Marrow central
To find contacts for your local group, please see the group pages of our wiki
Last edited 21/04/08 by Michael Finegan
Marrow exists at
- Aberdeen
- Barts & The London
- Birmingham
- Brighton and Sussex
- Bristol
- Cambridge
- Dundee
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- Imperial
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Newcastle
- Nottingham
- Oxford
- Peninsula
- Queen's University Belfast
- Sheffield
- Southampton
- St George's
- UCL
- UEA
- Warwick
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