Information About the Laboratory, its Staff, and this Website

Our laboratory is part of the Developmental Therapeutics Section, Division of Hematology-Oncology, in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Pathology.

We conduct cryopreservation and storage of bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells used for autologous transplantation for solid tumors at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.

We are FAHCT-accredited and we are the National Resource Laboratory for purging neuroblastoma from bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells for the Childrens Oncology Group (COG). We also support the New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy (NANT) Consortium.

• Laboratory Staff - Who's who in the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Processing Laboratory and the Antibody Production Laboratory, and our contact information.

• Personnel Directory - Contact Information for the CHLA Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Program.

• Photo Gallery - Pictures and photographs showing our laboratories and various aspects of the purging process.

This website was created in October 2000. It is intended as a complete resource center for our work. Protocols, published papers and descriptions of what we do are all available here. You will also be able to find contact information for all the staff involved in the various aspects of our work.

Copyright to all original content on this website is reserved by and belongs to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Please see the Personnel Directory for contact information if you need to get in touch with the webmaster of this site for any reason.