Give Birth to Hope

Donating your baby’s umbilical cord blood may offer a precious resource to a patient in need of a life-saving stem cell transplant.  Umbilical cord blood is rich in blood-forming stem cells, which can renew themselves and grow into mature blood cells.  After your baby is born, these cord blood cells can be collected, preserved and later used as a source of stem cells for transplantation for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and other life-threatening blood diseases.

About Us

Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute jointly oversee the Cord Blood Donation Program to provide hope to all patients in need of a life-saving stem cell transplant. For more information about the stem cell transplant program please visit  The Stem Cell/Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center (DF/BWCC) web site.

Learning that his son Darren suffered from life-threatening leukemia was the darkest moment of Keith Kennedy's life. Today, thousands of lives, like Darren's, can be saved through a new program at BWH and DFCI that enables parents to donate umbilical cord blood to a public bank for those in critical need of stem cell transplants.