{"id":29708,"date":"2014-04-18T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T14:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=29708"},"modified":"2015-02-26T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T15:48:10","slug":"boonshoft-school-of-medicine-students-to-hold-marrow-donor-registry-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/18\/boonshoft-school-of-medicine-students-to-hold-marrow-donor-registry-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Boonshoft School of Medicine students to hold marrow donor registry drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/18\/boonshoft-school-of-medicine-students-to-hold-marrow-donor-registry-drive\/marrow2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29709\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29709\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/04\/marrow2-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>When Neil Knight, a first-year medical student, heard about the plight of a 9-year-old boy named Cruz, who was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare blood disease, he knew he could help by bringing a marrow donor registry drive to Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>When Neil Knight, a first-year medical student, heard about the plight of a 9-year-old boy named Cruz, who was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a rare blood disease, he knew he could help by bringing a marrow donor registry drive to Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCruz\u2019s best chance for a cure is a bone marrow transplant,\u201d said Knight, who is a member of the Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine Phi Rho Sigma student chapter. \u201cHowever, he has an uncommon gene that is found only within the Hispanic population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Cruz, who is from Louisville, Knight and the Boonshoft School of Medicine Phi Rho Sigma student chapter have scheduled a marrow donor registry drive for Wednesday, April 23, 1\u20134 p.m. at White Hall. The bone marrow registry drive is for adults ages 18 to 44.<\/p>\n<p>Knight said that patients with a rare genetic type, especially racial and ethnic minorities like Cruz, have difficulty finding a match. Donors and patients who share the same ancestry are most likely to match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to increase the pool of donors in hope of finding a match for him,\u201d said Knight, who became a member of the Be The Match Registry, a nonprofit organization operated by the National Marrow Donor Program, when he was an undergraduate student at The Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p>Knight learned about Cruz\u2019s plight through Be The Match. A simple cheek swab is all that is needed to determine whether potential donors could be a match for Cruz or someone like him, who needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Knight at <a href=\"mailto:knight.87@wright.edu\" target=\"_blank\">knight.87@wright.edu<\/a>. To make a donation, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethematchfoundation.org\/goto\/teamcruz\" target=\"_blank\">bethematchfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marrow donor registry drive on April 23 will benefit 9-year-old boy who has a rare blood disease. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/18\/boonshoft-school-of-medicine-students-to-hold-marrow-donor-registry-drive\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":29709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2025,725,2149,2016,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-service","category-home-news-sidebar","category-medical-students","category-medicine","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35534,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29708\/revisions\/35534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}