SFU Blood, Organ, and Stem Cell Club
8888 University Drive V5A 1S6 Burnaby, BC, Canada

As many as 150 people can be involved in a successful organ donation to transplant. This video captures just a few of the many dedicated people in BC who are pa...rt of this community. We are grateful to all of our healthcare staff who are behind-the-scenes of each incredible journey from donation to transplant. Take two minutes to register as an organ donor at www.transplant.bc.ca.

Switching it up this week for our organ info blast! BC Transplant has a great link about deceased donation, and the difference between DCD (Donation after Circulatory Death) and DND (Donation after Neurological Death) which we think you should read.

It’s been over one year since my transplant and I am feeling amazing. My goal is to share my experiences and enrich knowledge of transplants and try to encoura...ge people to register as organ donors. Judy Mori was our 500th lung transplant recipient in December 2019. Read her incredible one year update: http://ow.ly/iBjx50CvXdy See more

Donating cord blood to Canadian Blood Services’ Cord Blood Bank is free, easy and poses no risk to mom or baby.

Week 2 of our organ info blast! What kinds of conditions require an organ transplant?

Canadian Blood Services has recently taken on the mandate of educating about and advocating for organ donation within the country! We've been sending out some info blasts to our members which we'll also share on our social media. Week 1 - living kidney donation!

Join us for our first meeting next Friday on October 9 at 5:30pm via Zoom! We hope to see you there. https://sfu.zoom.us/j/84735797913 Meeting ID: 847 3579 7913... Password: 967077 See more

In honour of World Marrow Donor Day, we celebrate stem cell registrants and donors including family, unrelated and cord blood donors in Canada and around the wo...rld. We are thankful for over 458,000 existing registrants on the Canadian Blood Services Stem Cell Registry. Your commitment as a potential donor means so much to patients in need of a lifesaving stem cell transplant. We are also immensely thankful for all the new registrants who participated in our commemorative mosaic in honour of World Marrow Donor Day 2020. Thank you for being part of something big. Together, we are Canada’s Lifeline #WMMD2020 #ThankYouDonor #StemCellsForLife #CanadasLifeline

Have you registered to be a potential stem cell donor yet? https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSmUd91y/

Are you looking for volunteer experience in a club dedicated to saving lives and having an impact on Canada's Lifeline? There's still time to sign up to become an Exec for our club! :) Please fill out this Google form by September 25th at 11:59pm

In honour of #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth, we are sharing this post from Dawn Pickering and Why We Swab _________________________ It is just so overwhelmi...ngly beautiful, you know, all these things that people are doing for us. My husband is not overtly emotional but he's been, so often, just on the verge of tears. You know, when somebody sends us a message or they tell us they're gonna do thisWe see people are posting on the pizzas named after Ollie, saying, I ordered all these pizzas and we're on your team, Ollie’s team. And, you know, all of those little gestures make you feel so supported and so very lucky, despite everything. That's the crazy part, right? How can you possibly feel lucky with all that is going on in your life? But you do. _________________________ Dawn Pickering talks about the humanity of others in support of her son Ollie who has anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Picture shows from left to right Dawn (mother), Ollie, Abby (Ollie’s sibling donor), and Mario (father). #WhyWeSwab #stemcells #transplant #gratitude #lymphoma #donor #CanadasLifeline #cancer #health #bonemarrow See more