Better match, better outcome: When it comes to UCB transplant, the precision of the match is important

Allogeneic Cell Sourcing

For years, umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplant was considered an acceptable alternative unrelated donor graft for the treatment of leukemia including reconstituting a patient’s immune system. Typically UCB transplants could be performed without the worry of precise patient-donor HLA-compatibility. To date, more than 35,000 cord blood transplants have been conducted worldwide. As use of the…

Getting under the hood of Be The Match BioTherapies’ powerful search engine

Allogeneic Cell Sourcing, Featured

One of the core components of our MatchSourceSM technology platform is a powerful, predictive search algorithm we call HapLogicSM. We sat down with Katie Howe, Ph.D., manager, Immunogenetic Operations and Research, and Caleb Kennedy, Ph.D., senior manager, Bioinformatics Research, to learn more about HapLogic and the important role search algorithms play in allogeneic drug development.