Umbilical Cord Blood Banking
The University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank (UCCBB), a major component of ClinImmune Labs, has a fifteen year history of collecting, processing, banking and distributing cord blood for human transplantation. UCCBB is a public cord blood bank, which has consented 17,000 women and banked over 8,000 cord blood units, of which more than 600 have been transplanted at over 100 different transplant centers in the United States and abroad.
UCCBB is accredited by AABB and managed by immunogeneticists and stem cell transplant physicians with decades of experience in this field. Its parent organization, ClinImmune Labs, provides sophisticated HLA high resolution DNA typing, hematopoietic stem cell and pancreatic islet cell processing, flow cytometry and regulatory oversight to the cord blood bank. All
cord blood units are processed in a Class 1000 cGMP processing facility.
In addition to collecting umbilical cord blood at two fixed site hospitals in Colorado, Denver Health and Exempla St. Joseph in Denver, with support from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission (ABRC), ClinImmune Labs and UCCBB initiated a collaborative inter-state program to collect cord blood in Arizona, at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix Baptist Hospital, and Maricopa Integrated Health System.
With support from the Checkoff Colorado donations in tax years 2008-2010, UCCBB established a Statewide Umbilical Cord Blood Collection program wherein qualified Colorado residents can now donate their babies' umbilical cord blood to our public bank. For more information please visit How to Donate Your Baby's Cord Blood. Watch a short video about cord blood donation.
Please Note: For donors who wish to make a contribution to the ADULT STEM CELL CURE FUND that supports the Statewide Umbilical Cord Blood Collection program , please make your check payable to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, or CDPHE. Donors should annotate in the check memo area that the money is for the Adult Stem Cell Cure Fund, and mail their checks to: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment,
Attn: Julie Becker, Fiscal Officer, PSD-A4, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South,
Denver, CO 80246-1530.