South Texas Blood & Tissue, a subsidiary of San Antonio nonprofit BioBridge Global, is part of the Be The Match BioTherapies Cord Blood Bank Alliance that will provide research grade and cGMP umbilical cord blood units as a starting material for researchers and therapeutic developers.
South Texas Blood & Tissue has been collecting and banking cord blood units since 2005 for Be The Match.
1,000 cord blood units are collected on average each year by South Texas Blood & Tissue from its network of hospitals in Austin, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley.
