News Releases

2023

November

• Be The Match Announces Winners of 2023 NMDP/Be The Match Awards
• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and NMDP/Be The Match Launch “American Symphony: Become a Lifesaver” Campaign

October

• Be The Match Raises $1.1 Million at Annual Gala

May

• Be The Match and William G. Pomeroy Foundation® Announce Expansion of HBCU Internships to Diversify the National Registry of Blood Stem Cell Donors
• Be The Match and AJ Rafael Team Up to Celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month
• Be The Match Champions Raise Over $420,000 at 2023 New York Gala to Save More Lives Through Blood Stem Cell Transplants
• Tour de TC 2023 Kicks Off Nationwide Cycling Tour to Help Raise Funds and Awareness to Support Patients In Need of Blood Stem Cell Transplants

March

• National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match Continues to Invest in Researchers of Tomorrow and Expands its Philanthropically Funded Research Programs

February

• Leading Transplant Organizations Unite as GVHD Alliance

2022

November

• Be The Match Announces Winners of 2022 NMDP/Be The Match Awards

September

• Blood Stem Cell Donor Goes Beyond Life-Saving Gift and Donates $500,000 to Be The Match®
• Aflac and Be The Match partner to help diversify the National Blood Stem Cell Donor Registry and improve health equity

August

• Dr. Owhofasa Agbedia Honored With The 2022 ASH-CIBMTR-ASTCT Career Development Award

July

• During African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month 10-Year-Old Texas Boy Makes Appeal for More Blood Stem Cell and Marrow Donors

June

• Life Saving Leave Act Introduced for National Donor Job Protection
• Be The Match Celebrates Our Amazing Partners

May

• Be The Match and Mall of America Announce Year-Long Partnership
• Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research Celebrates 50 Years

April

• Publicis Groupe Recognized with Be The Match Corporate Leadership Award as the Agency Champions Lifesaving Mission Through Donor Registry Drives and Fundraising
• Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research Celebrates 50 Years(1)

March

• National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match Celebrates Record Congressional Support For Patients With Blood Cancers And Blood Diseases

February

• National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match® Awards Amy Strelzer Manasevit Research Program Grant to Dan Peltier, MD, PhD
• Be The Match Dedicates Scholarships in Honor of Nurse Who Heroically Advocated for More Donors on the National Registry While Diagnosed with Leukemia

2021

July

• National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)/Be The Match Statement on House Appropriations Committee, Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding Bill for Fiscal Year 2022
• Be The Match Thanks Our Generous Partners

May

• President Biden Signs the TRANSPLANT Act Renewing the Nation’s Registry
• Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) launches study of COVID-19 vaccine immunogenicity in patients with hematological malignancies who have received cellular therapy
• Senate Passes the TRANSPLANT Act Renewing the Nation’s Registry

April

• Results of multicenter clinical trial sponsored by National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match published in Journal of Clinical Oncology
• Correcting Cord Blood Misinformation
• National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match Thanks House For Passing Lifesaving Legislation to Renew our Federal Program

March

• Be The Match Shares Support For Texas Statewide Bone Marrow Recruitment Program

February

• National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match announce plan to launch ACCESS clinical trial

2020

December

• Be The Match Partners with South African Bone Marrow Registry to Recruit New Donors

November

• National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match Praises the Senate for Passing Bill Reauthorizing the C.W. Bill Young Transplantation Program

September

• NMDP/Be The Match Urges Senate to Quickly Pass Reauthorization Bill to Protect Access to Life Saving Bone Marrow and Cord Blood Transplants

August

• Be The Match Foundation Statement on Blackbaud Data Breach

July

• Be The Match Chief Policy Officer Testifies to Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health to Reauthorize the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection Provide Life-Saving Transport Clearance for Cellular Therapy Products

June

• Be The Match® Appoints Amy Ronneberg as Chief Executive Officer
• Clinical Trials Access bill passes in the State of Minnesota

May

• Lockheed Martin Steps Up To Help Save Lives And Support Be The Match® During COVID-19

April

• Be The Match® Donates 35,000 Swabs to the State of Minnesota
• Be The Match® Launches #Couch2Cure Social Media Movement to Meet Urgent Demand for Marrow or Blood Stem Cell Transplants
• Be The Match® Donates 100,000 Swabs To Medical Facilities

March

• Trump Administration Grants Waiver of European Travel Ban to Be The Match to Continue Delivering Life-Saving Bone Marrow to U.S. Patients
• Be The Match Statement Regarding COVID-19

February

• Be The Match® Announces CEO Departure

2019

December

• National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match Applauds Congress for its Support of Patients with Blood Cancers and Other Diseases
• National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match Praises Congress for Including the Patient Access to Cellular Therapy (PACT) Act in End of Year Legislative Package

October

• National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match Urges Congress to Quickly Pass Reauthorization Bill to Protect Access to Life Saving Bone Marrow and Cord Blood Transplants

May

• New Co-Branded Collection Facility in Florida | Be The Match
• Senate Introduces Legislation to Protect Patient Access to Life-Saving Transplants for Medicare Beneficiaries
• House Introduces Legislation to Protect Patient Access | Be The Match
• National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match® Praises Legislation to Protect Patient Access to Life-Saving Transplants for Medicare Beneficiaries

February

• Be The Match Foundation Receives 250,000 Dollar Grant from Gilead Sciences

January

• Be The Match Partner Dr. Robert Masson and Team Take Second in Class at the Rolex 24
• Rolex 24 at Daytona Participant Partners with Be The Match to Reimagine Blood Stem Cell Donation

2018

November

• Be The Match Partners with LabCorp to Help Grow Donor Registry

September

• Be The Match® Commits $2 Million to Houston Nonprofit Halo House

August

• Congressman Paulsen Tours National Marrow Donor Program’s State-of-the-Art Biorepository

June

• Nation’s Transplant Centers and Advocacy Organizations Urge CMS to Address Underfunding of Cellular Transplant for Medicare Patients

April

• C. Randal Mills, Ph.D., CEO of Be The Match, Speaks at Unite To Cure, the 4th International Vatican Conference
• National Marrow Donor Program® Be The Match® Disappointed IPPS Proposed Rule Does Not Address Acquisition Cost Fix for Bone Marrow, Peripheral Blood Stem Cell and Cord Blood Transplants

March

• National Marrow Donor Program® Be The Match® Applauds Congress for $5 Million Boost to Vital Programs

2017

November

• National Marrow Donor Program® Be The Match® Applauds New Legislation to Protect Patient Access to Life-Saving Transplants for Medicare Beneficiaries

August

• First Responders Encourages to Register and Respond | Be The Match

July

• House Appropriations Committee Maintains Funding for Nation’s Bone Marrow and Cord Blood Registries | Be The Match

June

• Be The Match To Rally Black And African American Marrow Donors

May

• Congress is Increasing CY 2017 Funding for Nation’s Cord Blood Registry | Be The Match
• C. Randal Mills, Ph.D., Named Chief Executive Officer of Be The Match

March

• Nation’s Bone Marrow Program Formally Requests Additional Funds from Congress to Address Growing Patient Need for Life-Saving Transplants

January

• Minnesota Family Donates $1.25M to Be The Match Foundation® to Support Patients Searching for Clinical Trials

2016

December

• HHS Rule effectively bans compensation for PBSC donors

November

• The American Society of Hematology and Partners Receive Grant to Address Knowledge Gaps in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Care
• National Marrow Donor Program® Be The Match® Applauds CMS for Bone Marrow Transplant and Cord Blood Policies in HOPPS Final Rule

August

• National Marrow Donor Program® Be The Match® Disappointed CMS Misses Opportunity to Protect Access to Bone Marrow and Cord Blood Transplants in Inpatient Final Rule, Yet Remains Hopeful

July

• National Marrow Donor Program® Be The Match® Applauds CMS for Bone Marrow Transplant and Cord Blood Policies in HOPPS Proposed Rule

May

• Amy Ronneberg Receives 2016 Women in Business Award | Be The Match

January

• Joy King is Named Executive Director of Be The Match Foundation and Senior Vice President of Philanthropy at Be The Match
• National Marrow Donor Program Be The Match® Forms New Cellular Therapies Subsidiary
• National Marrow Donor Program Be The Match Forms New Cellular Therapies Subsidiary

2015

December

• National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)Be The Match Applauds Passage of H.R. 2820, the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Reauthorization Act of 2015
• Prospective study shows age doesn’t affect survival outcomes in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) who receive a hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT)

May

• Fire Department of New York Presented with Rod Carew Leadership Award

March

• International Marrow Donor Registries Reach 25 Million Potential Donors, Give Hope to Searching Blood Cancer Patients Around the World

January

• The National Marrow Donor Program Be The Match Applauds Representatives Jolly and Matsui for Creating Congressional Caucus to Increase Awareness about Adult Stem Cell Transplants

2014

December

• Results from the multi-institutional clinical trial presented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting

October

• Similar Survival Rates in Children with High Risk Blood Cancers Transplanted with One Versus Two Umbilical Cord Blood Units
• Results of a multi-center trial published in New England Journal of Medicine

September

• Villanova’s Coach Talley Presented Rod Carew Leadership Award

July

• Large majority of patients who need unrelated bone marrow transplants can find a matching donor on the national Be The Match Registry®

June

• Be The Match® Urges African Americans to Sign Up To Save Lives

March

• Dr. Mary Horowitz Presented with Lifetime Achievement Award for Blood and Marrow Transplant Research

January

• New Research Shows No Significant Difference in Long-Term Experiences of Bone Marrow and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) Donors
• Be The Match® and Stand Up to Cancer® Join Forces to Launch A New PSA Campaign Featuring ABC Anchor Robin Roberts

2013

October

• Congressman C.W. Bill Young Passes Away

July

• Blood Cancer Patients and Advocates Visit Capitol Hill

June

• NMDP Names Amy Ronneberg as CFO
• The NMDP and Be The Match was ranked No 29 on the list of large companies
• National Marrow Donor Program Named Top Minnesota Workplace

May

• New Research Shows Significant Improvement in Overall Survival Outcomes for Patients Receiving Blood Stem Cell Transplants

February

• World-Champion Boxer Robert Guerrero Teams Up With Be The Match

January

• 1 millionth blood stem cell transplant marks major medical milestone
• Be The Match Marshals Social Volunteers to Help Save Lives on MLK Day of Service

2012

December

• New Research Shows Significant Improvement in Survival for Patients Receiving Unrelated Blood Stem Cell Transplants

November

• Eleven awards honor outstanding contributions to Be The Match

October

• Study compares unrelated marrow and PBSC transplant outcomes

September

• Robin Roberts Teams up with Be The Match to Help Save Lives

August

• Mother of two meets the Yale student who saved her life through marrow donation

July

• Marrow Transplant Patients and Advocates Rally Congress to Support Be The Match

June

• Be The Match Kicks off Nationwide Effort to Increase African American Bone Marrow Donors

March

• ASBMT joins the NMDP to support the Amy Strelzer Manasevit Research Program
• Marrow transplant patient shares jazz compositions

February

• Coalition says PBSC donor compensation poses health risks to patients and donors

January

• Run Walk fundraising event for marrow transplant patients expands to 10 cities
• American Express Is First To Provide Grant to Support Online Registration for Be The Match

2011

December

• Study shows no difference in patient survival rates between the two major sources of donated blood cells
• NMDP Opposes Ninth Circuit Court Ruling on PBSC Donor Compensation

November

• NMDP Reaches Historic Milestone with 50,000th Marrow Transplant
• Thirteen awards recognize vital contributions from people organizations and the media
• Medical Researchers Honored for Outstanding Research in Hematology and Oncology

October

• Be The Match Give a Spit about Cancer

September

• Be The Match Foundation launches Every Patient Counts

August

• Randy Brecker and Pioneers For A Cure release jazz ballad to benefit Be The Match Foundation
• Florida State Coach is OnaKwest for a Cure
• NMDP CIO selected as honoree for Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal CIO of the Year

June

• July is African American Bone Marrow Awareness Month
• National Marrow Donor Program named to Star Tribune's Top Workplaces 2011

May

• Reval CEO Okochi joins Be The Match Foundation Board of Directors
• Barbara Burwell joins Be The Match Foundation Board of Directors

February

• President Obama’s Budget Increases Funding for Marrow and Cord Blood Transplantation
• 2011 Amy Strelzer Manasevit Research Program Scholar Announced
• Nordstrom Announces 2011 Black History Month Initiative

January

• Jeff Gordon Children’s Foundation Continues Legacy
• Be The One Run announces 2011 event series

2009

September

• Be The Match Joins ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

June

• California lawmaker recognized for advancing public umbilical cord blood collection