Tag: Anthony Nolan

Edinburgh’s Super Marrowman to embark on lifesaving trans-American cycle

Super Marrowman, Micah Stanbridge, from Edinburgh will cycle from the West to East Coast of America to raise money for Anthony Nolan, the charity that saved his mother’s life. Micah, 35, will cycle over 4,000 miles across America, in a bid to raise over £15,000 for Anthony Nolan, after the charity found a lifesaving stem cell donor for his mum in 2006. Continue reading Edinburgh’s Super Marrowman to embark on lifesaving trans-American cycle

A committed collaboration: 100,000 Scots on UK stem cell register

  • Over 20,000 of the 172,000 new stem cell donors added to the UK stem cell register in 2017 were from Scotland 
  • The total number of people on the register at the end of 2017 is 1.4 million 
  • Over 2,200 searches for donors for lifesaving transplants were made 

More than 20,000 Scots registered to become stem cell donors in 2017, bringing the total number of people from the country to 104,974, latest figures have revealed. Continue reading A committed collaboration: 100,000 Scots on UK stem cell register