Joanne Kurtzberg

And so, you know, having trained at Duke and at UCSF, it was nice that I could call Duke, and I knew the people there.

You know, the woman who was doing the research, Joanne Kurtzberg, she got there, uh, as an intern, um, during my fourth year of medical school, so we were only a year apart.

So as I was rotating through the hospital, she was only one year, uh, above me.

And, um, and in fact, she married, you know, somebody we knew as well.

But that can be costly and pay yearly.

But then they usually follow that up, "Would you like to donate your umbilical cord and your umbilical cord blood?" And they say, you know, "Yes or no." But if they say yes, so the hospital knows they're gonna donate it.

Um, so a woman has a baby, uh, and all these are live healthy births in the United States.

And as soon as the baby's born, the umbilical cord blood is harvested, and then the umbilical cord is harvested.