Towards a more inclusive unrelated donor registry

Warren B Fingrut^{1

2}, Natalie DeGurse^{3

4}, Adriyan Hrycyshyn^{3

5}, Brendon Lam^{3

6}, Kaveh Farrokhi^{3

4}, Rupal Hatkar^{3

7}, Kenneth Williams^{3

7}, Shamini Vijaya Kumar^{3

7}, Sze Wah Samuel Chan^{3

7}, Dylan Coupal^{3

8}, Sylvia Okonofua^{3

9}, Hayley Wroot^{3

10}, Kyla Pires^{3

10}, Sachini Jayasinghe^{3

10}, Terry Stubbs^{3

11}

Affiliations

¹ Stem Cell Club, Toronto, ON, Canada. wfingrut@alumni.ubc.ca.
² Department of Medicine, Adult Bone Marrow Transplantation Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. wfingrut@alumni.ubc.ca.
³ Stem Cell Club, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁶ Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada.
⁹ Faculty of Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada.
¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
¹¹ Faculty of Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Warren B Fingrut et al. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2022 Apr.

. 2022 Apr;57(4):688-690.

doi: 10.1038/s41409-022-01597-7. Epub 2022 Feb 15.

¹ Stem Cell Club, Toronto, ON, Canada. wfingrut@alumni.ubc.ca.
² Department of Medicine, Adult Bone Marrow Transplantation Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. wfingrut@alumni.ubc.ca.
³ Stem Cell Club, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁶ Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁸ Faculty of Medicine, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada.
⁹ Faculty of Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada.
¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
¹¹ Faculty of Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

No abstract available

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