General

The WBMT is a non profit scientific organization with the mission to promote excellence in stem cell transplantation, stem cell donation and cellular therapy. The purpose of this cooperation is to engage exclusively in scientific and educational activities and endeavours. The annual global survey is one of the activities of the WBMT (see publications).

The WBMT engages in a variety of activities to further its mission, including:

• An annual global survey of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) activity
• Scientific and educational conferences
• Development of consensus guidelines for optimum delivery of HCT services and accreditation of HCT facilities
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NEWS

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Announcement

Workshop of the WBMT in collaboration with the WHO
Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, 3&4 October 2013

Scientific Symposium of the WBMT
Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, 5 October 2013

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Congratulations

WBMT congratulations to Dennis Confer for the Mechthild Harf 2013 Award

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Slides regarding one million transplants (PPSX, 960Kb)

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Press Release, final (PDF, 206Kb)

                  One Million Transplants Fact Sheet FINAL (PDF, 33Kb)
              Distribution 1 Mio transplants (PDF, 240Kb)

            Press review

        Distribution & Access Report: Release Placements, (msg, HTML, 176Kb)
1. Article, (Link)
      SmartBank, (Link)
            NASDAQ, GlobeNewswire, (Link)
EuroStemCell, (Link)
Bernama, National News Agency of Malaysia, (Link)
Uganda News Releases, (Link)
          NewsMakers, (Link)
EBMT, (Link)
Nebraska Medical Center Cancer Center, (Link)
          Hematology Times, (Link)
ASBMT's homepage, (PDF)

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Press release, translations

Portuguese
Spanish
German
French
Korean
Malaysian
Traditional Chinese
Japanese
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WBMT session at the Tandem meeting in Salt Lake City Friday 15, 2013-02-04 (PDF, 2610Kb)

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First Circular (Haematocon 2013), 7. - 10. November 2013, (PDF, 1 MB)

Registration Form (Haematocon 2013), (PDF, 446 Kb)

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The Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation opposes to the compensation of marrow donors.

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WBMT officers

President
Dietger Niederwieser, MD
Professor of Medicine, Dr. h. c.
Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology,
Univ. of Leipzig, Johannisallee 32A,
04103 Leipzig, Germany
tel. +49 341 97-13050;
fax +49 341 97-13059
dietger(at)medizin.uni-leipzig.de

Vice-President
Daniel Weisdorf MD
Professor of Medicine
Director,
Adult Blood & Marrow Transplant Program
University of Minnesota
MMC 480, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
tel +1 612 624 3101
fax +1 612 625 6919
weisd001(at)umn.edu

President-Elect
Yoshihisa Kodera
Department of Promotion for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Aichi Medical University School of Medicine
21, Karimata
Yazako, Nagakute-cho
Aichi-gun
Aichi 480-1195 Japan
Tel.: +81 561 62 3311 (Ext. 2375)
Fax: +81 561 61 3180
ykodera(at)river.ocn.ne.jp

Treasurer
Dennis Confer, MD
Chief Medical Officer
National Marrow Donor Program and Be The Match
Associate Scientific Director, CIBMTR
3001 Broadway Street N. E. Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55413-1753
tel: +1 612 362 3425
fax: +1 612 845 0882
dconfer(at)nmdp.org
www.marrow.org

for past-president position
Prof. Dr. Hildegard Greinix
I. Med. Univ. Klinik, KMT,
Währinger Gürtel 18-20,
A-1090 Wien
Austria
tel. +43 1 40400 4402
fax +43 1 404005701
hildegard.greinix(at)meduniwien.ac.at