# José Carreras Cord Blood Bank Düsseldorf

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## TL;DR

A public cord blood bank at Düsseldorf University Hospital, founded in 1992 with the German José Carreras Leukaemia Foundation. Its unrelated-donor cord blood is licensed as a medicine in Germany.

## Summary

The José Carreras Stammzellbank was founded in 1992, with support from the Deutsche José Carreras Leukämie-Stiftung, at the Institute for Transplantation Diagnostics and Cell Therapeutics on the Düsseldorf University Hospital campus, under the direction of Gesine Kögler. In 2001 the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut licensed its unrelated-donor cord blood transplants as a medicinal product, a licence extended without time limit on 26 May 2010, and it was accredited by FACT-NetCord from 2003. It holds a manufacturing authorisation from the Düsseldorf regional government; the bank states that more than 1,230 patients had been treated with Düsseldorf stem cell transplants by 2016.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: José Carreras Stammzellbank; Düsseldorf Cord Blood Bank; José Carreras Cord Blood Bank Düsseldorf-Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf
- Tags: transplant; stem-cell
- City: Düsseldorf, DE
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/patienten-besucher/klinikeninstitutezentren/jose-carreras-stammzellbank

## Notes

- The 1,230 patients figure is the bank's own, dated 2016 on its facts page. Gesine Kögler has no person record in OnCo.

## Sources

- José Carreras Stammzellbank: über uns: https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/patienten-besucher/klinikeninstitutezentren/jose-carreras-stammzellbank/ueber-uns
- José Carreras Stammzellbank: Fakten: https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/patienten-besucher/klinikeninstitutezentren/jose-carreras-stammzellbank/ueber-uns/fakten
- WMDA: Find your registry (member map): https://wmda.info/find-your-registry/
- WMDA Share profile ION-4908: https://share.wmda.info/display/WMDAREG/ION-4908

## Connected records

- institutions: [University Hospital Düsseldorf / CIO Düsseldorf](https://onco.cc/institutions/uk-duesseldorf/), [World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA)](https://onco.cc/institutions/wmda/)
- terms: [Allogeneic stem cell transplant (allo-SCT)](https://onco.cc/terms/allogeneic-transplant/)

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