National Marrow Donor Program
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| Company type | Non-profit |
| Industry | Health care |
| Founded | St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (1987) |
| Headquarters | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
Key people | Amy L. Ronneberg CEO President, Be The Match BioTherapies |
Number of employees | 996 (October 2019) |
| Website | www.nmdp.org www.nmdpmexico.org nmdpbiotherapies.com network.nmdp.org |
NMDP, formerly known as the National Marrow Donor Program and Be The Match, is a nonprofit organization founded in 1987 and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operates a registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors and umbilical cord blood units in the United States.
The NMDP Registry is the world's largest hematopoietic cell registry, listing more than 22 million individuals and more than 300,000 cord blood units. Hematopoietic cells from NMDP donors or cord blood units are used to transplant patients with a variety of blood, bone marrow or immune system disorders. As of December 2020, NMDP had facilitated more than 100,000 transplants worldwide.