Stemcell What Does Brokering Mean?

When a parent decides to collect and store cord blood stem cells from their infant, they need to identify an appropriate cord blood bank. With everything else new parents need to prepare for, this can be an overwhelming prospect and the lack of resources available to help parents achieve this goal may prevent them from engaging in the process altogether. SCI wants to make it seamless and easy for parents to store valuable stem cells from their children at the time of birth. As part of the first iteration of the SCIApplication, parents will have the ability to engage with and make arrangements with cord blood banking centres around the world. For the first time, regardless of where families are located, they’ll have instant and unobstructed access to this important service. Brokerage, then, is the service that SCI will actually provide. This means that SCI will act as a third-party liaison between parents who want to store their children’s cord blood stem cells and those stem cell banks that can help them achieve that.