Boglarka Gyurkocza, MD¹, Rainer F. Storb, MD¹, Barry Storer, PhD^1*, Thomas Chauncey, MD^2*, Dietger Niederwieser, MD^3*, Judith Shizuru, MD, PhD^4*, Amelia Langston, MD⁵, Michael Pulsipher, MD⁶, Christopher Bredeson, MD⁷, Richard T. Maziarz, MD⁸, Benedetto Bruno^9*, Finn Petersen, MD¹⁰, Michael Maris, MD¹¹, Edward Agura, MD¹², Andrew M. Yeager, MD¹³, Wolfgang A. Bethge, MD^14*, Firoozeh Sahebi^15*, Lars Vindelov, MD¹⁶, Peter A. McSweeney, MD¹¹, Frederick R. Appelbaum, MD^1*, David G. Maloney, MD, PhD^1* and Brenda M. Sandmaier^1*

¹Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/ University of Washington, Seattle, WA
²VA Puget Sound Health Care System/ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/ University of Washington, Seattle, WA
³University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
⁴Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
⁵Emory University, Atlanta, GA
⁶University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT
⁷Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
⁸Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
⁹University of Torino, Torino, Italy
¹⁰LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT
¹¹Rocky Mountain Cancer Center, Denver, CO
¹²Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
¹³University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
¹⁴University of Tuebingen Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany
¹⁵City of Hope, Duarte, CA
¹⁶Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Yvette L. Kasamon¹, Mary S. Leffell^1*, Jeanne Kowalski^1*, Hua-Ling Tsai^1*, Nancy Rossiter^1*, Lawrence E. Morris², Pamela A. Crilley³, Leo Luznik^1*, Javier Bolaños-Meade¹, Paul V. O'Donnell^4*, Richard F. Ambinder¹, Richard J. Jones¹ and Ephraim J. Fuchs¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
²BMT Group of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
³Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
⁴Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Mary Eapen, MBBS¹, Vanderson Rocha, MD, PhD^2*, Andromachi Scaradavou, MD³, Eliane Gluckman, MD⁴, Mary Laughlin^5*, Cladd Stevens, MD^6*, Mary M. Horowitz, MD, MS⁷ and John E. Wagner, MD⁸

¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
²BMT unit, Hopital Saint Louis APHP and University of Paris VII, Paris, France
³New York Blood Center, New York, NY
⁴Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
⁵Ireland Cancer Center, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
⁶New York Blood Center, New York
⁷Medical College of Wisconsin, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI
⁸Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, University of Minnesota

Claudio Brunstein, MD, PhD¹, John E. Wagner, MD², Daniel Weisdorf, MD¹, Sarah Cooley, MD¹, Harriet Noreen^1*, Juliet Barker, MBBS³, Todd DeFor^1*, Michael Verneris, MD¹, Philip B. McGlave^1*, Bruce R. Blazar, MD¹ and Jeffrey S. Miller, MD¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
²Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
³Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Mary Eapen, MBBS¹, John Klein, PhD^1*, Guillermo Sanz, MD, PhD², Claudio Anasetti, MD³, Joan Garcia, MD^4*, Eliane Gluckman, MD⁵, Mary M. Horowitz, MD, MS⁶, Gesine Koegler, MD^7*, Mary Laughlin, MD^8*, Gerard Michel, MD^9*, Stephen R Spellman, MS^10*, Franklin O. Smith, MD¹¹ and Vanderson Rocha, MD, PhD¹²

¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
²Dept. of Hematology, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
³H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
⁴Centre de Transfusio I Banc de Teixitis, L Hospilet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
⁵Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
⁶Medical College of Wisconsin, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee, WI
⁷University of Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
⁸Ireland Cancer Center, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
⁹Hopital D'Enfants de la Timone, Marseille, France
¹⁰National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN
¹¹Children's Hosp. Med. Ctr., Cincinnati, OH
¹²BMT unit, Hopital Saint Louis APHP and University of Paris VII, Paris, France

Marcos De Lima¹, Jonh D. McMannis^1*, Rima Saliba^1*, Laura Worth^1*, Partow Kebriaei^1*, Uday Popat^1*, Muzaffar Qazilbash^1*, Roy Jones^1*, Sergio Giralt^1*, Leandro de Padua Silva¹, Lawrence Cooper^1*, Demetrios Petropoulos^1*, Dean Lee^1*, Susan Kelly^1*, Peter Thall^2*, Simon Robinson^1*, Issa Khouri^1*, Chitra Hosing^1*, Martin Korbling^1*, Amin Alousi^1*, Gabriela Rondon^1*, Borje S. Andersson^1*, Yago Nieto^1*, Stefan Ciurea^1*, Krishna Komanduri^1*, Richard E Champlin^1* and Elizabeth Shpall^1*

¹Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, M.D. Anderson Cancer Ctr., Houston, TX
²Department of Biostatistics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Ctr., Houston, TX

Samir Kanaan Nabhan, MD^1*, Vanderson Rocha, MD^1*, William Arcese, MD², Anne Sirvent, MD^3*, Irina Ionescu, MD^1*, Renata Bizzetto, MD^1*, Karim Boudjedir, MD^1*, Wagnara Chaves, MD^1*, Andrée-Laure Herr, MD^1*, Eliane Gluckman, MD¹ and Guillermo Sanz, MD, PhD⁴

¹Eurocord, Paris, France
²Dept. of Hematology and Transplant, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Rome, Italy
³Hôpital de l'Archet 1, Nice, France
⁴Dept. of Hematology, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain

Roelof Willemze, MD, PhD¹, Celso arrais Rodrigues^2*, Myriam Labopin, MD^3*, Guillermo Sanz, MD, PhD⁴, Gerard Michel, MD^5*, Gerard Socié, MD, PhD^6*, Bernard Rio^7*, Anne Sirvent^8*, Marc Renaud^9*, Luis Madero^10*, Mohamad Mohty, MD, PhD¹¹, Christelle Ferra, MD, PhD^12*, Federico Garnier^13*, Juan Garcia^14*, Lucilla Lecchi^15*, Gesine Koegler^16*, Yves Beguin¹⁷, Cristina Navarrete^18*, Timothy Devos^19*, Irina Ionescu^20*, Karim Boudjedir^20*, Andrée-Laure Herr, MD^21*, Eliane Gluckman, MD²² and Vanderson Rocha^20*

¹Dept. of Hematology, Leiden Univ. Med. Ctr., Leiden, Netherlands
²Eurocord, France
³Hopital Saint-Antoine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, Paris 75571, France
⁴Dept. of Hematology, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
⁵Hopital D'Enfants de la Timone, Marseille, France
⁶Hematology / Transplantation, Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
⁷Département d'Hématologie et d'Oncologie Médicale, Hôtel Dieu, Paris, France
⁸Hôpital de l'Archet 1, Nice, France
⁹Hôpital La Miletrie, Poitiers, France
¹⁰MD, Nino Jesus Children's Hospital, Madrid, Spain
¹¹Hematology Dept., CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
¹²GETH (Grupo Español de Trasplante Hematopoyético), PETHEMA (Programa Español de Tratamiento de Hemopatías Malignas), Barcelona, Spain
¹³French Network of Cord Blood Banks, Paris, France
¹⁴Cttc, Cord Blood Bank, Barcelona, Spain
¹⁵Cord Blood Bank & GRACE, Milano, Italy
¹⁶Institut für Transplantationsdiagnostik und Zelltherapeutika, Duesseldorf, Germany
¹⁷ULg, Liege, Belgium
¹⁸Cord Blood Bank, London, United Kingdom
¹⁹De Leuvense Navelstrengbloedbank, Leuven, Belgium
²⁰Eurocord, Paris, France
²¹Bone Marrow Transplantation, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France
²²Hopital Saint-Louis, Paris, France