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Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust
Anthony Nolan is a United Kingdom, UK Charitable organization, charity that works in the areas of leukaemia and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. It manages and recruits donors to the Anthony Nolan Register, which is part of an aligned registry that also includes the ''Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry'', NHS Blood and Transplant's ''British Bone Marrow Registry'' and Deutsche KnochenMarkSpenderdatei (DKMS) UK. This aligned register is known as the ''Anthony Nolan & NHS Stem Cell Registry''. It also carries out research to help make bone marrow transplants more effective. History The charity is named after Anthony Nolan (born 1971–died 1979), who did not suffer from leukaemia but from Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome, a rare inherited blood disorder. It was founded by Anthony's mother Shirley Nolan (1942–2001) in 1974 as the Anthony Nolan Register. Initially based at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Westminster Children's Hospital, it moved to St Mary Abbots Hospital in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Nolan
Shirley Nolan or Shirley Oakey (10 February 1942 – 3 December 2001) was a British teacher who set up the Anthony Nolan Register to allow Bone marrow transplants. Her son died and she was diagnosed with Parkinson disease taking her own life in 2001. The charity she founded made transplants possible for 4,000 people. Life Nolan was born in Cookridge in 1942. Her father was a soldier at the time and her mother was a bus conductor. She attended Pontefract Girls' High School and went on to Trent Park College in Hertfordshire. She married James Gerald Nolan in 1962. She had studied at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and in 1963 she began teaching and in 1965 she was head of drama at a school in Rainham in Essex. In 1969 she travelled in Australia accompanied by a British man named as "Ted". They were living together in Adelaide when Anthony Nolan was born. Shirley was teaching literature and her partner had a delivery business. In 1971 her son, Anthony Nolan, was born. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |