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Blood Cancer Program

The Tulane Bone Marrow Transplant program is relocating from Tulane Medical Center in downtown New Orleans (150 S. Liberty Street, New Orleans) to East Jefferson General Hospital (4224 Houma Blvd., Metairie) in January 2024.The clinic’s new name is the East Jeffersion General Hospital Transplant and Cellular Therapy Center. Click here to learn more about our location and services.

The Transplant and Cellular Therapy Center is committed to advancing the science and care of patients with blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Alongside the Tulane University School of Medicine, we have performed more than 400 life-saving blood and bone marrow transplants, and we are a leader in the New Orleans region as the first fully accredited Foundation for Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) facility in Louisiana. Our experienced hematologists and multi-disciplinary team create individualized treatment plans for each patient, and we have access to the latest clinical trials and therapies.

What sets us apart

  • We are the first FACT-accredited adult center in the state of Louisiana for both autologous and allogeneic transplants, performing related and unrelated donor transplants. FACT is the global standard for top-quality patient care in cellular therapies.
  • We are the only National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) transplant, apheresis and collection center for adults in Louisiana.

Conditions treated

We treat patients with a wide variety of conditions, including:

  • Autoimmune disease
  • Aplastic anemia
  • Acute myeloblastic and lymphoblastic leukemia
  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)
  • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Hodgkin's disease
  • Germ cell carcinoma
  • Ewing's sarcoma
  • Other non-malignant hematologic diseases

Types of transplants offered

  • Autologous - patient serves as his or her own donor
  • Allogeneic - another person serves as the patient’s donor
  • Syngeneic - an identical twin serves as the patient’s donor
  • Myeloablative and non-myeloablative transplants