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| The purpose of banking cord blood is for future use, so quality cannot be adequately evaluated until the cord blood stem cells are used. Experience in cord blood banking with successful transplants and extensive experience in the cryopreservation of cells are therefore critical for a good cord blood bank. |
Our Laboratory and Scientific Director, Dr. H. Yang, has the following:
- 20 years of experience in research on the cryopreservation of cells,
including bone marrow stem cells and cord blood stem cells
- 20 years of experience banking bone marrow and
peripheral blood stem cells for transplant
- Over 10 years of experience banking cord blood with successful transplants
- numerous publications on the cryopreservation of stem cells and cord blood
The extensive experience in banking and research on stem cells and cord blood make Progenics unique and the name you should trust to store your baby's cord blood. |
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Our Laboratory and Scientific Director, Dr. H. Yang, is a renowned stem cell cryopreservation scientist. For nearly 20 years, he has been an active researcher in the Stem Cell Laboratory of the Canadian Blood Services, which is associated with the University of Alberta's cryobiology group, publishing numerous articles in the field of stem cell cryopreservation and umbilical cord blood banking.
Since 1986, Dr.Yang has cryopreserved over one thousand samples of patient bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells for transplantation without any failure of engraftment because of the quality of cryopreserved stem cells. Since the cryopreservation technique of cord blood is the same as that of bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells, 20 years of experience is extremely valuable in the cryopreservation of cord blood.
In 1995, Dr. Yang established the Alberta Cord Blood Bank's processing laboratory, the first public cord blood bank in Canada. He has directed the processing laboratory for nearly 10 years and has gained extensive experience in all aspects of cord blood banking for transplantation.
Dr. Yang has firmly established himself as an internationally respected authority in cord blood banking and stem cell cryopreservation with his research on separating cord blood stem cells efficiently1 , protecting cord blood stem cells from freezing damage2,3 , assessment of viability of post-thaw stem cells3,4 , and the correlation of post thaw viability and transplant outcomes 5
References
- Yang H, Acker JP, Abley D et al. High-efficiency volume reduction of cord blood using pentastarch. Bone Marrow Transplantation (2001) 27:457-461.
- Yang H, Acker JP, Hannon J et al. Damage and protection of umbilical cord blood cells during cryopreservation. Cytotherapy (2001) 3:377-386.
- Yang H, Zhao H, Acker JP, Liu Z, Akabutu J, McGann LE. Effect of dimethyl sulfoxide on post-thaw viability assessment of CD45+ and CD34+ cells of umbilical cord blood and mobilized peripheral blood. Cryobiology. (2005) 51:165-175.
- Yang H, Acker JP, Cabuhat M et al. Effects of incubation temperature and time after thawing on viability assessment of peripheral hematopoietic progenitor cells cryopreserved for transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplantation (2003) 32:1021-1026.
- Yang H, Acker JP, Cabuhat M et al. Association of post-thaw viable CD34+ cells and CFU-GM with time to hematopoietic engraftment. Bone Marrow Transplantation (2005) 35:881-887.
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