The Anthony Nolan Trust

The Anthony Nolan Trust is a UK charity that focuses on leukaemia and bone marrow transplantation. It manages and recruits donors to one of the two bone marrow registers in the United Kingdom; the other register is the "British Bone Marrow Registry" run by the National Blood Service. It also carries out pioneering research to help make bone marrow transplants more effective. [ cite web | url=http://www.anthonynolan.org.uk/about/what-we-do.htm | title=What we do | publisher=The Anthony Nolan Trust | accessdate=2008-06-18 ]

The charity is named after Anthony Nolan (born 1971, died 1979), who did not suffer from leukaemia but from Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a rare inherited blood disorder. cite web | url=http://www.anthonynolan.org.uk/about/ourhistory/1970s.htm | title=Our history - 1970s | publisher=The Anthony Nolan Trust | accessdate=2008-06-18 ] It was founded by Anthony's mother Shirley (1942-2002) in 1974 as the "Anthony Nolan Register". Initially based at the Westminster Children's Hospital, it moved to St Mary Abbot's Hospital in 1978 and to its present offices, laboratory and research institute in north London. The charity was renamed in 2001 to the "Anthony Nolan Trust". [ cite web | url=http://www.anthonynolan.org.uk/about/ourhistory/2000s.htm | title=Our history - 2000s | publisher=The Anthony Nolan Trust | date=2008-06-18 ]

To help take back more lives from leukaemia, The Anthony Nolan Trust constantly needs more people aged 18 - 40 to join its bone marrow register, especially young men and people from black and minority ethnic communities. [ cite web | url=http://www.anthonynolan.org.uk/donating/why-join-the-donor-register.htm | title=Why join the donor register? | publisher=The Anthony Nolan Trust | accessdate=2008-06-18 ] It is also the only register in the UK to allow gay men to join, subject to their normal criteria for inclusion. [ cite news | url=http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/campaigns/sign-up-for-sudders/2008/06/02/mark-s-signing-up-for-our-campaign-86081-21008541/ | title=Mark’s signing up for our campaign | author=Katie Campling | publisher=Huddersfield Daily Examiner | date=2008-06-02 | accessdate=2008-06-19 ]

The Midland Metro has a tram named after Anthony Nolan. [ cite news | url=http://archive.cravenherald.co.uk/2004/5/21/100497.html | title=Zahier appeal brings boost to donor register | publisher=Telegraph & Argus | date=2004-05-21 | accessdate=2008-06-18 ]

References

ee also

*Professor John Raymond Hobbs, whose team set up the world's first bone marrow donor register.

External links

* [http://www.anthonynolan.org.uk/ Anthony Nolan Trust homepage]