# South African Bone Marrow Registry (SABMR)

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## TL;DR

South Africa's national bone marrow donor registry, started in Cape Town in 1991. It finds unrelated donors locally and through registries abroad for the roughly 70 per cent of patients with no family match.

## Summary

The SABMR was founded in 1991 in Cape Town, where its office is at Groote Schuur Hospital according to WMDA's listing. It states that about 30 per cent of South African patients needing a bone marrow stem cell transplant find a match within their family and the other 70 per cent depend on an unrelated donor, and that through international partners it has access to about 43 million donors. It is a non-profit and Public Benefit Organisation and a WMDA member.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: SABMR
- Tags: transplant; stem-cell
- City: Cape Town, ZA
- Type: consortium
- Website: https://sabmr.co.za/

## Sources

- SABMR: about us: https://sabmr.co.za/about-us/
- WMDA: Find your registry (member map): https://wmda.info/find-your-registry/
- WMDA Share profile ION-8118: https://share.wmda.info/display/WMDAREG/ION-8118

## Connected records

- institutions: [Groote Schuur Hospital / University of Cape Town](https://onco.cc/institutions/groote-schuur-uct/), [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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