{"entity":{"id":"korea-marrow-donor-program","kind":"institution","name":"Korea Marrow Donor Program (KMDP)","aka":["KMDP","한국조혈모세포은행협회","Korea Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Association","Korea Marrow Bank Association"],"tldr":"A Korean nonprofit that recruits and matches unrelated blood stem cell donors. It was founded in 1994 and records more than 7,000 transplants arranged.","summary":"KMDP's history page records its founding general meeting on 11 March 1994, with the president of the Korean Red Cross as first chair, and its incorporation as the Korea Marrow Bank Association (사단법인 한국골수은행협회) under a Ministry of Health and Welfare permit in July 1994; it now uses the name Korea Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Association (한국조혈모세포은행협회). The timeline lists its 7,000th stem cell transplant, a 30th-anniversary history (1994-2024), an annual donor thank-you day held jointly with the Catholic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank, and support for overseas Koreans seeking a match.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"KMDP history (Korean)","url":"https://www.kmdp.or.kr/KMDP/history.php"},{"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":["WMDA's map lists KMDP without a WMDA Share identifier."],"city":"Seoul","country":"KR","lat":37.48,"lng":126.885,"institutionType":"consortium","website":"https://www.kmdp.or.kr/","programs":[]},"route":"/institutions/korea-marrow-donor-program/","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/"}]}}