At the Masonic Cancer Center, Dr. John E. Wagner has helped lead Minnesota's Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Program to international prominence. He has been a critical part of this pioneering medical effort, using umbilical cord blood to perform the first transplant for the treatment of leukemia in 1990.

The program's key elements are:

• Cord Blood Research and Translational Development
• Clinical Care
  • Conditions Suited for Cord Blood Transplantation
• Cord Blood Collection and Banking
• Cord Blood Transplantation
• 100 Days: A Transplantation Timeline
• One Family's List of Critical Questions
• Transplantation for Adult Patients

The University of Minnesota:
A Center for Cord Blood Transplant Research

University of Minnesota research centers have more NIH and other grant funding on umbilical cord blood stem cells and transplantation than any other institution in the world.

• Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Clinical Trials