Funded by Kelly Chase and the St. Louis Blues Alumni Puck Cancer charity hockey game in support of Hockey Fights Cancer powered by the V Foundation
This proposal presents a plan to collect and manage blood samples from patients getting stem cell transplants. In this treatment, unhealthy blood-forming cells (stem cells) are replaced with healthy ones. With help from the V Foundation, this research will set up and manage a new system for storing these transplant samples at Washington University in St. Louis. The study will look at detailed biological data from 40 patients who receive these transplants. These patients will have different types of donors: siblings who match, unrelated donors who are matched and unmatched, and partially matched family members. The goal of the transplant sample storage program is to help researchers at Washington University find ways to make stem cell transplants safer and more effective for treating blood cancers.
This research will also help understand how new drugs that suppress the immune system work. With the support of the V Foundation, this project supports their mission to defeat cancer.
