{"entity":{"id":"bst-barcelona-cord-blood-bank","kind":"institution","name":"Banc de Sang i Teixits cord blood bank, Barcelona","aka":["Banc de Sang i Teixits","BST","Barcelona Cord Blood Bank","Concordia Programme"],"tldr":"The public cord blood bank of Catalonia's Blood and Tissue Bank. It stores more than 20,000 donated cord blood units, and 2,000 have been transplanted in about thirty countries.","summary":"The Banc de Sang i Teixits (Blood and Tissue Bank) is a public entity of the Catalan health system. It runs the cord blood bank of the Concordia Programme, an interregional cooperative programme for umbilical cord blood donation between the Catalan health department and those of the Balearic Islands, Aragon, Navarre, Extremadura, Cantabria and Andorra; the BST cryopreserves, tests, stores and distributes the units. The programme holds over 20,000 units listed on national and international registries, and 2,000 units from the bank have been transplanted in around thirty countries. It is accredited nationally and by FACT-NetCord.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"BST: cord blood (products and services)","url":"https://www.bancsang.net/en/products-services/cord-blood/"},{"label":"BST: donate cord blood","url":"https://www.bancsang.net/en/donations/cord-blood/"},{"label":"WMDA: Find your registry (member map)","url":"https://wmda.info/find-your-registry/"}],"tags":["transplant","stem-cell"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["wmda"],"pathways":[],"terms":["allogeneic-transplant"],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Barcelona","country":"ES","lat":41.401,"lng":2.208,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://www.bancsang.net/en/products-services/cord-blood/","programs":[]},"route":"/institutions/bst-barcelona-cord-blood-bank/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"wmda","kind":"institution","name":"World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA)","route":"/institutions/wmda/"}],"term":[{"id":"allogeneic-transplant","kind":"term","name":"Allogeneic stem cell transplant (allo-SCT)","route":"/terms/allogeneic-transplant/"}]}}