LeukoLab is a privately owned blood and bone marrow collection facility. At LeukoLab, we maintain a diverse selection of healthy donors who volunteer periodically to provide small samples of blood and/or bone marrow to researchers who order such samples for laboratory tests or experiments. Many of the samples are used as part of cancer and diabetes research projects, or for the development of drugs and devices used in the treatment of those diseases. LeukoLab is a research facility only; we do not provide therapeutic treatments for any condition and the samples we collect from our donors are not used for therapeutic purposes either. At no time will our donor blood products ever be transfused or injected into another human being. Additionally, we will not collect blood or bone marrow samples from our donors unless we have specific orders from the researchers to do so.

A donor identification number will be assigned to you in place of your name, and a product identification number will be assigned to your blood or bone marrow sample. At no time will your name or other identifying information ever be released from LeukoLab. Any samples collected from you will be used for research purposes only as noted above.

No. We keep a strict policy of confidentiality related to donor identity and personal information. Researchers may be notified of your age, gender, ethnicity, blood type and other non-identifying information, but your name and contact information will not be disclosed to any researcher or released to any other company or individual.

Compensation varies depending on the type and volume of bone marrow or blood products collected from each donor in fulfillment of orders placed by the researchers. The first step is to qualify as donor. To do so, you must first complete a 5 minute telephone screening interview with a LeukoLab staff member. If you pass the telephone screening, you will be scheduled to come to LeukoLab for a 30-minute in-person New Donor Screening Appointment where you will be weighed, have your blood pressure taken, and have the veins in your arms examined to see if they are large enough for our collection procedures. Next, a small sample of your blood will be collected and tested on site within a few minutes to see if your baseline blood cell counts fall within a normal range. If they do, you will receive information about the different types of procedures for which you are qualified, and the various compensation amounts that are offered for those procedures.

You will not donate any blood products for the researchers at the screening visit and no compensation is offered for completing the screening visit.

You will be contacted by LeukoLab and scheduled for a future donation appointment as soon as possible based on your interest and qualifications once we have a confirmed order from one of the researchers. A check will be mailed to you after completion of a donation appointment. It may take up to 10 business days to receive your check after you donate.