Historical Milestones

Historical Breakthroughs for Inherited Metabolic Storage Disease Patients at Fairview-University Blood and Marrow Transplant Services

1968     First HLA matched sibling donor BMT in the world

1982     First BMT (sibling donor) for IMSD (Maroteaux-Lamy)

1989     First Unrelated Donor BMT for IMSD (Hurler syndrome)

1994     First Umbilical Cord Blood HCT for IMSD (Krabbe Disease)

1999     First use of mesenchymal stem cells in IMSD BMT (MLD)

2000     First non-myelobablative BMT for IMSD

2001     200th BMT performed for IMSDs

2002     First use of peripheral blood stem cells in IMSD BMT (Hurler syndrome)

2004    300th BMT performed for IMSDs