W&M Bone Marrow Drive

W&M Bone Marrow Drive We are a student run organization dedicated to raising awareness and support for Be The Match, the National Bone Marrow Donor Program.

We hold one drive day per semester where individuals can submit a cheek swab to be added to the national registry. Every year, thousands of people of all ages are diagnosed with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases. Many of them will die unless they get a bone marrow or cord blood transplant from a matching donor. Since it began operations in 1987, the NMDP has facilitated more than 50,000

marrow and cord blood transplants for patients who do not have matching donors in their families. A patient’s likelihood of having a donor on the Be The Match Registry who is willing and able to help save a life is estimated to range from 66 percent to 93 percent, depending on race or ethnicity. On average, 54,000 new potential donors join the Be The Match Registry each month. More than 650,000
new potential donors joined in 2011; of those, nearly 40 percent were from diverse racial and ethnic
communities. The public can join the Be The Match Registry in person or online at BeTheMatch.org. To join, people need to be between the ages of 18 – 44, willing to donate to any patient in need, and meet health guidelines. Registration involves completing a health history form and giving a swab of cheek cells. The total cost to add each new member to the Be The Match Registry is about $100. Contributions through Be The Match Foundation® help cover the costs to add more members to the Be The Match Registry, giving more patients hope for a cure.

04/06/2017

Bone Marrow Drive surpassed our goal of registering over 150 people to the National Bone Marrow Registry today!!! Thanks to everyone for coming out, and for those still not registered, we'll see you in the Fall!

HUGE shoutout to our William and Mary Football team for coming out and supporting BMD's pep rally today-- we'll be on th...
04/05/2017

HUGE shoutout to our William and Mary Football team for coming out and supporting BMD's pep rally today-- we'll be on the terrace until 4 today, selling t-shirts, stickers, koozies and spreading the word about Drive Day! William & Mary Tribe football

04/04/2017
10/22/2016

Neil Williamson was proud, but he was also a father. Part of that role was to make certain that his son, Mark, fully understood the gravity of what he was about to do.

Photo by Rico Xi
12/28/2015

Photo by Rico Xi

11/19/2015

Thank you to everyone who came to our drive yesterday! We were able to register over 175 people to the registry!!

Be the Match Saturday at the game was a success!! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table to sign our get well banne...
11/01/2015

Be the Match Saturday at the game was a success!! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table to sign our get well banner!

09/27/2015

Thanks to everyone who came out to support our Family Weekend 5k run! We will be posting pictures later this week as well as results!

04/29/2015

Still want to get a t-shirt before the semester end? Contact our Director of Public Relations at [email protected] to get one! Our new shirts are $15 and all of our older shirts are $5

04/23/2015
Help us reach our goal of 200 registrations for the Bone Marrow Registry! We are in Tidewater A & B until 8 tonight! It ...
04/22/2015

Help us reach our goal of 200 registrations for the Bone Marrow Registry! We are in Tidewater A & B until 8 tonight! It only takes 10 minutes to potentially save a life!

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301 Monticello Ave
Williamsburg, VA
23185

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