Minneapolis, MN

Be The Match

Donor For All: Using Mismatched Unrelated Donors in Cell Therapy

$45K Finalists

For many patients with blood cancer, stem cell transplantation remains the best treatment. However, many patients who require transplant cannot find a matched donor, with the greatest impact to racial/ethnic minorities.

Through a series of iterative clinical trials, NMDP is exploring whether partially matched donors could close the access gap. As a scalable, long-term solution, NMDP proposes to open a platform clinical study to collect foundational data on mismatched transplant and to study new interventions.

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Let’s build community trust and improve people’s health and well-being.

The NIH Build UP Trust Challenge will award as many as ten Finalists up to $45,000 each and the opportunity to win one of four $200,000 prizes for promising strategies that increase research participation and the adoption of medical care by building trust and improving engagement with historically underserved communities.