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Cord Blood Center CZ, s.r.o., (hereinafter CBC CZ) based in Brno - Cihlářská 643/19, find here, founded in 2003, provides procurement, processing, testing, freezing, storage and distribution of cord blood (until 2009, CBC CZ was corroborating with the non-profit organization and biobank Eurocord-Slovakia). In relation to legislative changes in 2008 (Act No. 296/2008 Coll. on ensuring quality and safety of human tissues and cells intended for human application) first our company has changed its status from a business company to a private medical facility engaged in the field of hematology and blood transfusion. Then our company requested a business permit as a specialized tissue bank from the State Institute for Drug Control (SIDC). CBC CZ practices its qualified business activities on the new premises in the Central Region, Modletice 98, Říčany in Prague (Prague-East District).
Did you know that we are the first private medical facility in the Czech Republic to receive a business permit directly from the Czech Supreme Audit Office for activities related to collection, processing, testing, storage and distribution of hematopoietic stem cells from umbilical cord blood?
Private medical facility CBC CZ
The Regional Office for the Central Region, the health department, decided on August 14th, 2009 about registration of a private health care facility CBC CZ engaged in the field of hematology and blood transfusion, registered under the business mark: 129424/2009/KUSK. This permit was amended in terms of authorized permit about the activities of the tissue facility from the State Institute for Drug Control on May 21, 2010 under File No.: 077849/2010/KUSK.
Tissue facility CBC CZ – guarantees quality to its Czech clients!
The State Institute for Drug Control of Czech Republic on March 30th, 2010 authorized the business activities for the tissue facility of Cord Blood Center CZ, s.r.o. under registration number: sukls151283/2009.
This authorization covers the following business activities:
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procurement of tissues and cells,
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laboratory testing,
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processing,
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dismissing,
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storage in liquid nitrogen,
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distribution.
The tissue facility CBC CZ has become the first and the only private medical facility of its kind in the Czech Republic. According to the strict parameters of Czech and the European Union legislation, CBC CZ is ready and well-prepared to process high quality transplants from umbilical cord blood.
CBC CZ comes to their potential clients in the Czech Republic and already has a well-recognized and fully accredited workplace capable of holding all clients interested in their autologous (own) cord blood sample!
Why choose CORD BLOOD CENTER Group (CBC)…read more>>
- CBC released cord blood unit for 1st autologous transplantation in Europe,
- 14 cord blood units processed by CBC experts have already been released for transplantations all around the world,
- leading cord blood bank in Europe with over 14 years of experience,
- the only one private cord blood bank in Europe operating not only in Family cord blood banking but in Public cord blood banking (Placental Stem Cell Registry – Eurocord),
- operating in Public banking since 1997 as the 5th public bank in the world,
- operating in Family banking since 1999 as the 2th family bank in Europe,
- cord blood units processed by CBC experts fulfill high quality criteria to be used by transplantation centers worldwide,
- cord blood units processed by CBC experts contain the highest number of total nucleated cells*,
- CBC processing technology enables to store all types of stem cells in the highest possible amount,
- largest number of CBC own processing laboratories in Europe,
- operating via individual affiliates in a number of European countries based on the particular national legislation,
- more than 95`000 families decided to trust CBC services.
*BMDW, Annual Reprt 2009
The Institute for the Protection of Personal Data and Registration CBC CZ
Our company, with its character and nature, is subject to a collection of personal data and therefore it is registered as the controller of personal data at the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Czech Republic. It is registered under no.: No 4664/09-REG.
The tissue facility and the Biobank Eurocord – Slovakia…read more>>
Until 2009 the Slovak Registry of Placental Hematopoietic Cells and the Biobank, Eurocord-Slovakia (www.eurocord.sk) provided Czech clients with its professional services. It was founded in 1997 by an experienced working team, composed of experts from the specialized field. Many of them worked in foreign laboratories engaged in research in the field of immunogenetics. In its early days, with the support of sponsors and promotional partners, and in cooperation with the Virological Institute of SAV, as a non-profit organization Eurocord Slovakia focused on receiving grants from projects of the Dutch Transplantation Foundation of Central Europe within the scope of RETRANSPLANT project supported from the European Union grants. Through obtained grants, Eurocord-Slovakia began to coordinate and upgrade the database of bone marrow in many central European countries.
In the beginning, the major goal of Eurocord-Slovakia was to build a public umbilical cord blood registry. The attention was focused on the search for compatible unrelated donors of bone marrow and umbilical cord blood for Slovak patients in the international database of bone marrow and umbilical cord blood donors BMDW (Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide - www.bmdw.org). A suitable graft match from an unrelated donor was a successful accomplishment for the first bone marrow transplantation in Slovakia, which was performed in 1999 at the Department of Hematology and Transfusion in the Faculty Hospital in Bratislava.
In that year, (1999) Eurocord-Slovakia provided the international network of registries BMDW with the first units of umbilical cord blood, prepared in their own laboratory. To this date, the registry has received nearly 1,000 units of umbilical cord blood. Based on laboratory tests from the amount of received units, 600 of these cord blood units were suitable for freezing, of which 216 were HLA standardized and included in the international network of registries BMDW. The remaining amount of the umbilical cord blood units that failed to meet the required parameters have been used for research purposes.
Currently, the Registry provides free transplant preparation for sibling transplantation. Preparation of the transplant is realized based on the requirements of transplant and cancer centers in Slovakia. It has already been done more than 20 donations for sibling transplantation.
A very important area of cooperation is the liaison with the Virological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Charles University and other research institutions for stem cells research. The use of stem cells in cardiology, neurology, or in other medical disciplines, as well as in the field of regenerative medicine is the subject of intense research.
Since 2001, Eurocord-Slovakia provides procurement, processing, freezing and storing of umbilical cord blood for the child’s own need in the Bratislava region. Eurocord-Slovakia also holds a certificate of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice - GMP) granted by the State Institute for Drug Control of the Slovak Republic. The certificate declares that the production, storage and quality control is in accordance with applicable legislation of the Slovak Republic.
Warranty of quality of Eurocord-Slovakia
Eurocord-Slovakia is a private medical facility, which processes hematopoietic stem cells from umbilical cord blood, bone marrow and peripheral blood in accordance with current requirements and current legislation of the Slovak Republic. Eurocord-Slovakia holds the following licenses and certificates:
- The permission of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic dated from June 25th, 2004, no. SZS/OLP-45830/2004 for the preparation of transfusion medicine in accordance with the law NR SR no. 140/1998 of medicine and medical instruments.
- The permission of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic dated from June 17th, 2008, no. 16628-2/2008-OP for the operation of medical facility such as Bio-bank and Tissue facility in accordance with the law 578/2004.
- The permission of the Self-governing Region of Bratislava dated from December 12th, 2006 no. 103340/2006-ZDR/2 for operation of medical facility in accordance with the law NR SR č. 578/2004.
As of January 1st, 2009 Eurocord-Slovakia has become an associate member (Associate Membership) of the international organization NetCord Foundation, which declares the highest standards of quality for products from umbilical cord blood. The NetCord organization brings together umbilical cord blood registries in the U.S., Europe, Israel, Japan and Australia. To this day, NetCord has provided one thousand cord blood transplants for patients from all over the world. In cooperation with the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy - FACT) NetCord set the specific quality standards for the collection, cryopreservation, storage and use of umbilical cord blood for transplantation.
In February 2010, Eurocord-Slovakia provided its first donor transplant among tens of other transplants distributed around the world (mainly the USA) including the Czech Republic! In the transplant center in Motol Hospital, Prague on February 10th, 2010 a several-months old little girl with serious damage to her immune system (SCID) was transplanted with the umbilical cord blood from a donor. Did you know that the same technology is used to process your transplant?
Membership of Eurocord-Slovakia in BMDW
Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW - www.bmdw.org) – an international network of bone marrow and umbilical cord blood donors started operating in 1988 and a year later it had created the first database, which contained a list of donors from 8 registers with a total of 180,000 bone marrow volunteering donors. The first units of umbilical cord blood entered the registry of BMDW as late as 1994.
This unique database is the largest international database of its kind that provides the global exchange of hematopoietic stem cell transplants. Its activities are coordinated through Europdonor Foundation. The aim is to collect information about HLA characteristics and other information about the unrelated bone marrow and umbilical cord blood donors, so that such information is available for transplant centers around the world. Data from 63 registries from 44 countries and 43 cord blood banks from 26 countries are currently available. Eurocord-Slovakia has HLA standardized and registered several hundred units of umbilical cord blood.
