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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, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 56
  • PBSC: 105
  • 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, Joseph Clara, Stefan Cordes, Ajoy Dias, Dimana Dimitrova, Stacy Doran, Emma Groarke, Dennis Hickstein, Matthew Hsieh, Mustafa Hyder, Kazusa Ishii, Courtney (Fitzhugh) Joseph, Jennifer Kanakry, Christopher Kanakry, Elizabeth Kang, Andre LaRochelle, Vid Leko, Harry Malech, Alain Mina, Scott Norberg, Bhavisha Patel, Steven Pavletic, Christopher Pleyer, Kamil Rechache, Rosa Nadal Rios, Nirali Shah, John Tisdale

Pediatric - Danielle Arnold, Lea Cunningham, Dimana Dimitrova, Corina Gonzalez, Courtney (Fitzhugh) Joseph, Jason Levine, Emily Limerick, Mamatha Mandava, Lisa McReynolds, Sung-Yun Pai, Nirali Shah, 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 all enrolled in clinical trials at NIH. Funding is provided by the Federal Government.

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, Joseph Clara, Stefan Cordes, Ajoy Dias, Dimana Dimitrova, Stacy Doran, Emma Groarke, Dennis Hickstein, Matthew Hsieh, Mustafa Hyder, Kazusa Ishii, Courtney (Fitzhugh) Joseph, Jennifer Kanakry, Christopher Kanakry, Elizabeth Kang, Andre LaRochelle, Vid Leko, Harry Malech, Alain Mina, Scott Norberg, Bhavisha Patel, Steven Pavletic, Christopher Pleyer, Kamil Rechache, Rosa Nadal Rios, Nirali Shah, John Tisdale

Pediatric - Danielle Arnold, Lea Cunningham, Dimana Dimitrova, Corina Gonzalez, Courtney (Fitzhugh) Joseph, Jason Levine, Emily Limerick, Mamatha Mandava, Lisa McReynolds, Sung-Yun Pai, Nirali Shah, 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 all enrolled in clinical trials at NIH. Funding is provided by the Federal Government.

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 2019, 2020, 2021, 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 38 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 97.4%.

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 81.7% and 99.2%.

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 2019, 2020, 2021, 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 8 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 87.5%.

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 46.1% and 100.0%.

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 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 2019, 2020, 2021, 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 82 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 80.3%.

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 68.9% and 86.5%.

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 2019, 2020, 2021, 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 83 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 70.8%.

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 62.1% and 80.6%.

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


138

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 42 39 0 81
Unrelated donor 6 50 1 57
Total allogeneic 48 89 1 138
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
0
-- 0
Total combined
137 1 138

Number of pediatric transplants

Total pediatric transplants


26

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 6 10 0 16
Unrelated donor 2 6 2 10
Total allogeneic 8 16 2 26
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
0
-- 0
Total combined
24 2 26

Transplants by disease

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 20 51 20 5 96
Unrelated 11 36 19 1 67
Autologous 0 0 0 0 0
Total 31 87 39 6 163

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
301-480-9504
Email: kristen.cole@nih.gov

Financial representative:
Lynda Huber
(301) 846-6435
Email: huberld@niaid.nih.gov

NMDP 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.