Donors as Research Subjects or Third Parties

• Transplant Center Procedures
  
  Transplant center procedures for testing recipient research protocols that involve unrelated donors against NMDP's algorithm for donors as research subjects or third parties in research.
  
  

• Transplant Center IRB Memo
  
  Cover memo transplant centers will submit to their local IRB along with the NMDP's Algorithm Analysis Worksheet for recipient research protocols that involve unrelated donors.
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• Algorithm Analysis Worksheet
  
  NMDP's algorithm and worksheet to help transplant centers determine if the unrelated donor is a human research subject or a third party in research on a recipient research protocol.
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