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Public Cord Blood Bank Campaign Launch

Bay Area Births Rich Source of Life Saving Stem Cells


WHAT: Northern California Umbilical Cord Blood Bank Campaign Launch
WHO: San Francisco Supervisors, State, and City Officials
WHERE: SF City Hall, Front Steps
WHEN: Thursday, Nov. 15th, 1:00 pm


Citing the need for a way to collect and store potentially life saving umbilical cord stem blood cells, SF Supervisor Sean Elsbernd and other local politicians, doctors and officials of the Joanne Pang Foundation will officially lunch a fundraising campaign to raise $2.5 million. Funds raised will establish the public, non-profit Northern California Umbilical Cord Blood Bank in San Francisco .

“There is a critical need for increased capacity for public cord blood banking, and because of its ethnic diversity, the San Francisco Bay Area is an especially good place for this to happen," said Dr. Michael D. Amylon, Emeritus Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.

Nearly 20 percent of all babies born in California each year are delivered in Northern California . The ethnic diversity of the region means that the Northern California Umbilical Cord Blood Bank units will a have a broad genetic mix which will benefit Asian, African American, Caucasian, and Hispanic patients of all ages.

Unlike bone marrow donor matching, collecting cord blood stem cells is non-invasive, easier to match to patients in need and non-controversial. In most births today, cord blood is disposed of after a baby is born. Once this cord blood bank is established, parents giving birth will have the option of donating this gift of life at no cost to them.


Media Contacts:
Joanne Pang Foundation
Scott Hildula, President
Email: scott@joannepang.org
Tel: (415) 786-3036

San Francisco Supervisor
Sean Elsbernd, District 7
Email: sean.elsbernd@sfgov.org
Phone: (415) 554-6516


Currently, our speakers will include:

Senator Carol Migden
SF Sup Sean Elsbernd
SF Public Health Director Mitch Katz
Jonathan Leong, Chairman of Asian American Donor Program

I hope you could help share this email with your friends and invite them to attend this press conference on November 15. If established, this public, nonprofit, world-class cord blood bank will help provide life-saving therapies to the communities in Northern California and around world for many decades to come.

Blessings,

Joseph Pang