The bone marrow transplantation programme at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon's first and only internationally accredited transplant service.
The bone marrow transplantation programme at the American University of Beirut Medical Center is a hospital transplant service, not a private regenerative medicine clinic. Its own pages state that the programme was formally established in July 2004, that the first transplants were performed in 1998, and that it was the first such programme in Lebanon.
The site sets out the categories of stem cell transplant performed: autologous, in which the patient's own blood stem cells are collected and returned after treatment; matched related allogeneic, using cells from a tissue-matched family member; matched unrelated donor transplant; half-matched family donor transplant; and transplant from an identical twin. It states that the centre was the first in Lebanon to perform unrelated donor, mismatched and half-matched transplants. The main indications given are leukaemia, aplastic anaemia, lymphoma and myeloma, in adults and children.
The programme publishes its accreditation and affiliations. The site states that it received JACIE accreditation in 2016, describing itself as the only internationally accredited transplant programme in Lebanon, that it is a registered member of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation under centre number CIC369, and that it is recognised as an international transplant centre by the United States National Marrow Donor Program. It states the programme has treated more than a thousand patients since it began, of whom about four in five were adults.
Six consultants are named with their clinic times, and the programme lists a transplant unit coordinator and a case manager with direct extensions. The site describes five service units including dedicated clinics, inpatient and outpatient infusion centres and a stem cell transplant unit across the adult and paediatric divisions. It says nothing about the cost of treatment on the pages read.
The site gives the main indications for transplant as follows.
The site states that the programme performs blood and bone marrow stem cell transplantation, using either the patient's own cells or cells from a family or unrelated donor.
The site names the following consultants with their clinic times.
The site places the main transplant unit on the eighth floor of Phase II at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, with further service units elsewhere on the campus, each with its own extension. It describes five service units covering dedicated clinics, inpatient care, outpatient infusion and a stem cell transplant unit for adults and children. The programme states that it holds JACIE accreditation, is an EBMT member centre and is recognised by the United States National Marrow Donor Program.
The pages read say nothing about the cost of treatment.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.