Trials and Tribulations

Abstract

The UF & Shands Stem Cell Laboratory in Gainesville, Florida is an active, FACT accredited cell processing and storage facility. The Stem Cell Laboratory functions within our Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) program in an 852 bed, tertiary care hospital, and is not affiliated with the hospital’s clinical laboratory. Our program performs approximately 150 transplants per year, both pediatric and adult, and both allogeneic and autologous. The Stem Cell Laboratory is an unclassified facility equipped with Class 100 biological safety cabinets. Approximately 300 products pass through the laboratory each year. The laboratory is staffed with five licensed medical technologists under the supervision of a laboratory coordinator, with a research coordinator overseeing cellular therapy clinical trials.