- Dr. John E. Wagner, M.D.
- University Of Minnesota

Dr. John E. Wagner, M.D., University of Minnesota
Dr. John Wagner, Scientific Director of Clinical Research of the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program and Stem Cell Institute, was part of the medical team that made medical history in 1991 by performing the first successful umbilical cord blood transplant in the world for a leukemia patient.

Noting the promise of cord blood stem cells to create healthy blood, Dr. Wagner and the team successfully treated a four-year-old boy with a rare blood disease called juvenile chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Since then, the uses of umbilical cord blood have expanded. It is now used to treat a variety of childhood blood diseases and cancers. Today, more than 3,000 cord blood transplants have been performed around the world. Wagner's own research and the clinical programs at the University of Minnesota continue to expand the applicability of cord blood transplants and improve success rates. Even so, that's not enough for Wagner.

"The results are very promising, but we're never satisfied. That's why our research program is so broad, deep and aggressive. We're always looking for better treatment tools".

Recruited by the University of Minnesota Medical School from The John Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1991, Wagner has created one of the top umbilical cord blood research programs in the country that has received national and international attention. More about Dr. Wagner and his research program at
www.cancer.umn.edu/page/research/trsplant/cord9.html

University of Minnesota
A Center for Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants (UCBT) Research
The University of Minnesota is one of six original sites involved in the National Cord Blood Transplant Study.

The purpose of this four-year study is to critically evaluate techniques of collecting, storing and transplanting umbilical cord blood. Another goal is to evaluate long-term survival rates of cord blood transplant patients. The study is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. More about University of Minnesota Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation at www.cancer.umn.edu/page/research/trsplant/cord.html
Contact us at 1 (888) 601-0787 or at bmt@umn.edu

 Dr. Wagner's
research and the
clinical programs at
the University of Minnesota continue
to expand the applicability of cord blood transplants
and improve success rates.

 Today, more than
3,000 cord blood transplants have
been performed
around the world...