CordSavings, a Swiss family biobank, December 2022
Founded in 2012, CordSavings is pleased to have moved in 2022, still within the BioArk in Monthey, to brand new premises, designed and optimized by its team. It is with pleasure that the members of CordSavings welcome you today to their laboratory and their cryostorage areas (storage under nitrogen at -180°C). This new environment.
Founded in 2012, CordSavings is pleased to have moved in 2022, still within the BioArk in Monthey, to brand new premises, designed and optimized by its team. It is with pleasure that the members of CordSavings welcome you today to their laboratory and their cryostorage areas (storage under nitrogen at -180°C). This new environment even better reflects their perfectionism and their passion.
An umbilical cord blood bank launched in Valais
Umbilical cord blood can be used to treat cancers, including leukemia. But there is a serious lack of resources in Switzerland to collect and store it.
The CordSavings company in Monthey (VS) aims to solve this problem by creating a self-financed cord blood bank for everyone.
In Switzerland, parents who want to take advantage of the birth of their child to collect the stem cells contained in the umbilical cord have two options: either donate it to a public cord blood bank that makes it available to patients waiting for a transplant, or keep it for their own child by paying a private bank.
CORDSAVINGS: Life at the end of the Cord Tissue!
CORDSAVINGS, established in the BioArk Valaisans since 2012, is an active and recognized biobank in the cryopreservation of blood stem cells and umbilical cord tissue for therapeutic purposes.
Renowned cord blood banks and public healthcare institutions located within the European Union regularly call on CORDSAVINGS to process and preserve the tissue and cord blood of children in the most delicate situations (the latest cases transmitted being a case of lymphoma and a very serious genetic skin disease – Epidermolysis bullosa – according to a very elaborate protocol where both the cord blood and the preserved cord tissue will be used).
Within the local Swiss population, CORDSAVINGS is very appreciated and renowned for its human proximity and its constant attention to families. In keeping with its values of solidarity, CORDSAVINGS actively participates in the collection of public cord blood with the Swiss association "Cordons pour Demain".
In addition to cord blood, at CORDSAVINGS you also have the possibility of storing stem cells from umbilical cord tissue.