The BMT program at Stanford performs autologous and allogeneic transplantations for approximately 200 adult patients each year. The program has been very successful with a history of limited morbidity rates and acute mortality that is well below most published reports.

In addition to a successful clinical practice, our program researchers are translating their discoveries into new therapies, advancing the efficacy of hematopoietic cell transplantation for patients worldwide.

More than 3,500 adults have received bone marrow or stem cell transplants at Stanford.

Congratulations to our outstanding lab members for their recent achievements!

Julie Boiko, an undergraduate in the Miklos lab, is being honored with a Merit Award from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) as the author of the highest scoring undergraduate abstract this year. She will give an oral presentation of her abstract at the 50th Annual Meeting of ASH in San Francisco, California, December 6-9, 2008.

Janelle Olson, Emanuela Sega and Liz Zambricki, all from the Negrin lab, received travel awards to attend the ASH meeting for their top-rated abstracts. Drs. Olson and Sega will be giving oral presentations and Dr. Zambricki will present a poster.

Congratulations to our stellar women in science!