Cord Blood Transplantation

Proposal

Mission and Vision of the CBTWG/APBMT

Mission statement:

CBTWG/APBMT is established to improve outcomes of CBT and to promote CB as a standard choice for patients who need stem cell transplantation in Asia.

Vision:

• We will develop effective international partnerships.
• We will regularly exchange the information in the fields of science, clinical practice, and banking.
• We will design and support observational studies and prospective multi-institutional clinical trials.
• We will coordinate a network with banks, transplant centers, domestic registries in each countries and CBTWG/ APBMT.
• We will organize educational activities.

Topics:

• Discuss the bank issues and international graft exchange
• Promote international corporation in Asia
• Coordinate a network with other association or international registries, e.g. Eurocord, Netcord, EBMT/CB committee, CIBMTR, etc.
• Investigate clinical questions and factors to affect the clinical outcomes
• Discuss the basic and clinical use of cord blood as cell therapy

Members:

Transplant physician, bank person, scientists who could representative their own countries participated in APBMT.

Meetings

Minutes of Cord Blood Working Group Meetings are available here Click on the following links to download.
Note: Access to the document links within the Minutes pages is restricted to members only and requires a password.

Minutes of the Cord Blood Working Group - Oct 2013

Minutes of the Nutrition Support Working Group - Oct 2015

Members

Chairman: Satoshi Takahashi (Japan)

WG Members