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National Institutes of Health

Location

National Institutes of Health
Clinical Center, Building 10
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892
Direct phone: (301) 496-4000

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021
  • Marrow: 45
  • PBSC: 106
  • Cord Blood: 3
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 0
Performs adult; pediatric transplants

Overview

This NIH Clinical Center program supports innovative transplant approaches conducted by three NIH Institutes (NCI, NIAID, and NHLBI). To undergo a transplant, patients must be enrolled in an active clinical trial at one of these institutes.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1992 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since March 2007.

Attending physicians

Adult - Daisuke Araki, George Aue, Richard Childs, Stefan Cordes, Dimana Dimitrova, Courtney Fitzhugh, Emma Groarke, Dennis Hickstein, Noa Hotzman, Matt Hsieh, Mustafa Hyder, Kazusa Ishii, Christopher Kanakry, Jennifer Kanakry, Elizabeth Kang, Andre LaRochelle, Harry Malech, Scott Norberg, Steven Pavletic, Chris Pleyer, Kamil Rechache, Rosa Nadal Rios, Nirali Shah, John Tisdale

Pediatric - Danielle Arnold, Lea Cunningham, Dimana Dimitrova, Courtney Fitzhugh, John Glod, Corina Gonzalez, Nirali Shah, Haneen Shalabi, David Young

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Transplants are provided free of charge to patients who are enrolled on a clinical trial at NIH.

About the center

Overview

This NIH Clinical Center program supports innovative transplant approaches conducted by three NIH Institutes (NCI, NIAID, and NHLBI). To undergo a transplant, patients must be enrolled in an active clinical trial at one of these institutes.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1992 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since March 2007.

Attending physicians

Adult - Daisuke Araki, George Aue, Richard Childs, Stefan Cordes, Dimana Dimitrova, Courtney Fitzhugh, Emma Groarke, Dennis Hickstein, Noa Hotzman, Matt Hsieh, Mustafa Hyder, Kazusa Ishii, Christopher Kanakry, Jennifer Kanakry, Elizabeth Kang, Andre LaRochelle, Harry Malech, Scott Norberg, Steven Pavletic, Chris Pleyer, Kamil Rechache, Rosa Nadal Rios, Nirali Shah, John Tisdale

Pediatric - Danielle Arnold, Lea Cunningham, Dimana Dimitrova, Courtney Fitzhugh, John Glod, Corina Gonzalez, Nirali Shah, Haneen Shalabi, David Young

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult and pediatric

Other programs and services

Transplants are provided free of charge to patients who are enrolled on a clinical trial at NIH.

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this center

National Heart Lung & Blood Institute

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2018, 2019, 2020, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 37 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 97.3%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 80.2% and 99.0%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

National Institutes of Health

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2018, 2019, 2020, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 12 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 91.7%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 54.0% and 99.3%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

National Institutes of Health Transplant Center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2018, 2019, 2020, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 71 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 85.8%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 70.2% and 88.5%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

NIH - Experimental Transplantation and Immunotherapy Branch (Related Donor Program)

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2018, 2019, 2020, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 52 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 76.9%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 60.9% and 84.3%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

Number of adult transplants

Total adult transplants


124

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 33 43 0 76
Unrelated donor 3 44 1 48
Total allogeneic 36 87 1 124
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
0
-- 0
Total combined
123 1 124

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


30

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 7 14 0 21
Unrelated donor 2 5 2 9
Total allogeneic 9 19 2 30
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
0
-- 0
Total combined
28 2 30

Transplants by disease

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 25 55 16 0 96
Unrelated 10 30 17 0 58
Autologous 0 0 0 0 0
Total 35 85 33 0 154

Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.

Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.

More information about transplants for this disease can be found:

Additional information

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator:
Kristen Cole
301-675-8825
Email: kristen.cole@nih.gov

If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center's direct phone number.

Be The Match patient navigators

Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.

Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743

Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410.
(Long distance or international charges may apply.)

Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org

Survivorship program

This center has separate survivorship programs for adult and pediatric patients.
Please select the program you are interested in.