Cord Blood Stem Cell (Hematopoietic Stem Cell)

Cell therapy is the inevitable for the 21st century, said Dr. George Daley, Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research. Since the first in 1988, there have been thousands of successful cord blood transplant cases. Cord blood (hematopoietic stem cell) transplant has been applied to treating blood diseases such as Thalassemia, Leukemia, inherited inefficiency, immune inefficiency, and to post-chemotherapy repairing hematopoietic system.

In order to better serve the purpose of cord blood database multitude, BIONET has established an innovative storage scheme Reciprocity, comprising private banking and public donation model. This scheme entitles all participants to most of the primary rights when enrolling in private banking with considerably less financial burden. For example, they may access to public banking database when in need of searching for matches. The program has been proven successfully responsive as the database of BIONET has grown rapidly, currently holding the fourth position on Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW) program. The private database of BIONET is also linked throughout foreign partners like APCBBC.

BIONET core laboratories have been accredited by American Association of Blood Bank (AABB) and Commission on Laboratory Accreditation (COLA). The entire protocol of CBU collecting, screening, processing, cyropreserving, releasing, and discarding, is certifiable for clinical application both domestically and internationally.

It has been a typical long-term deficit in general for the local industries of Taiwan, that the most crucial, fundamental niche of technology is rarely originated locally. Therefore the government has actively promoted supportive programs of encouraging innovative, creative research domestically, and it indeed contributed to accelerate the growth of potential market/technology-driven industries.

BIONET has a solid record of submitting and participating government strategic research projects over the years, audited by Ministry of Economic Affairs, National Science Consolatory, et al. Out of a wide variety of emulation, BIONET has always captured the best provisional and creational trends of the industry and therefore authenticated for its devotion in research as well as reputation.

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