Posted by The Law School
13 March 2025Exeter Marrow, the student branch of the charity Anthony Nolan, are holding an event in the Forum on Monday 17 March to encourage students and colleagues aged 16-30 to join the national stem cell register and potentially save a life.
Joining the register is easy and just involves completing a quick online form and taking a simple cheek swab. The stand will be in the Forum between 10:00 and 16:00.
It’s hoped the event will help more patients find a stem cell match, patients like the father of Exeter MA Law student, Issey Charlesworth. Her Dad, Philip, has a rare blood cancer and his best chance of survival is a stem cell transplant. Unfortunately, there’s no suitable match on the stem cell register at the moment and so Issey and her family are encouraging more people to join the register.
Exeter Marrow has held 111 recruitment events over the past 21 years, which has led to more than 3,300 Exeter students joining the stem cell register. Incredibly, 15 people recruited at the Uni events have gone on to donate their stem cells to a patient in need.
If you cannot attend the event, you can sign up online and get a donor recruitment kit posted to your house. You can find out more details on the Anthony Nolan website.