Stanford Blood Center (SBC) has been a community blood center with an expansive donor base, playing a key role in research success and clinical care since 1978. SBC Labs provides routine, complex, and customized testing services to support transfusion and transplantation medicine for Bay Area patients and the growing research and therapeutics community. Alongside SBC’s daily blood operations program, our Donor Testing Lab supports infectious disease and immunohematology needs for blood, bone marrow, living organ, and organ & tissue testing. Our onsite Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory (HLA Lab) provides compatibility testing and pre- and post-transplant monitoring for bone marrow and solid organ transplantation, as well as disease association and pharmacogenetics testing. Rounding out our service offering is SBC’s Biologics program, including a CLIA-certified Flow Lab, which supports research endeavors and clinical trials to advance scientific and medical impact across their communities.
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Stanford Blood Center Expands Transplantation Support with Launch of Organ and Tissue Donor Infectious Disease Testing
07 July 2026
STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford Blood Center (SBC) today announced the successful launch of its testing services, including infectious disease and immunohematology, for Organ Procurement Organizations and Tissue Banks, expanding its specialized laboratory services to support organ and tissue donations throughout Northern California and beyond.
With the July 1 launch, SBC is now providing organ and tissue donor testing services for Donor Network West, the federally designated Organ Procurement Organization serving more than 13 million people across Northern California and Northern Nevada. The new service further expands SBC’s longstanding role in transfusion and transplantation medicine while helping ensure lifesaving organs and tissues can be evaluated safely and efficiently for transplantation.
