NYU Langone Health’s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center opened a new center dedicated to blood and marrow transplants, according to a Nov. 29 press release.
The new Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Center in New York City is part of the institution's Blood and Marrow Transplant Program and the larger Center for Blood Cancers at Perlmutter Cancer Center.
The new center includes four examination rooms and an infusion center with eight infusion chairs. The center also has an apheresis center for the stem cell collection from donors that are used for transplants. Eligible patients will be able to receive transplants on an outpatient basis.
"At the new center, blood cancer patients now have all necessary services in one location in Manhattan, performed by highly specialized providers dedicated to bone marrow transplants and cell therapy," said Samer Al-Homsi, MD, leader of the center and clinical professor in the department of medicine and executive director of the Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Center at Perlmutter Cancer Center.