The Anthony Nolan Trust is a UK charity that focuses on leukemia and bone marrow transplantation. It maintains the UK register for stem cells and bone marrow types.

The trust is named after Anthony Nolan (born 1971, died 1979), who did not suffer from leukemia but from Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a rare inherited blood disorder. It was founded by Anthony's mother Shirley (1942-2002) in 1974. Initially based at the Westminster Children's Hospital , it moved to St Mary Abbots Hospital in 1978 and to its present offices at the Royal Free Hospital in 1988. It was initially named the "Anthony Nolan bone marrow register", but was renamed in 2001 to reflect the new reality that stem cells can now be harvested without surgically aspirating bone marrow.[1].

External link

• Anthony Nolan Trust homepage