Founded in 1964, New York Blood Center (NYBC) is a nonprofit organization that is one of the largest independent, community-based blood centers in the world. NYBC, along with its operating divisions, collects approximately 4,000 units of blood products each day and serves local communities of more than 75 million people in the Tri-State area (NY, NJ, CT), Mid-Atlantic area (PA, DE, MD, VA), Missouri and Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and Southern New England. NYBC and its operating divisions also provide a wide array of transfusion-related medical services to over 400 hospitals nationally, including Comprehensive Cell Solutions, the National Center for Blood Group Genomics, the National Cord Blood Program, and the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, which — among other milestones — developed a practical screening method for hepatitis B as well as a safe, effective and affordable vaccine, and a patented solvent detergent plasma process innovating blood-purification technology worldwide.
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Founded in 1954, Blood Bank of Delmarva (BBD) provides safe blood and blood products to all 19 hospitals in Delmarva and relies on over 80,000 volunteer blood donors each year to ensure patient needs are met. BBD distributes over 130,000 blood products annually and operates four donor centers. Each year, BBD normally hosts over 600 blood drives that would not be possible without the commitment of community organizations that volunteer to serve as sponsors or coordinators, providing opportunities for blood donors to donate and help patients in need.
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Community Blood Center (CBC), established over 40 years ago, serves hospitals in the Greater Kansas City metropolitan area, as well as eastern Kansas and western Missouri. CBC provides blood products to 70 area hospitals – and relies on volunteer donors each day to meet the need for life-saving gifts of blood. CBC provides high-quality reference immunohematology laboratory services, including platelet and red blood cell antibody testing, and therapeutic apheresis to local hospitals.
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Innovative Blood Resources is a nonprofit community blood center that was formed in 2012 through the combination of two strong, nationally-recognized, community-based nonprofit blood centers: Minnesota-based Memorial Blood Centers, and Nebraska Community Blood Bank. With a combined 100 years of blood industry experience, IBR provides comprehensive product and service capabilities focusing on value-driven solutions for patients, hospitals, physicians, researchers, and other healthcare partners.

IBR is also home to IBR Biomedical Services, which grew from the nationally recognized research and clinical trial contributions of Memorial Blood Centers’ physicians and clinicians in blood banking and transfusion services. IBR Biomedical Services offers expertise in the areas of cellular therapy, clinical trial support, as well as regulatory and quality systems consulting.
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Founded in 1948, Memorial Blood Centers is a nonprofit community-based blood center that provides lifesaving blood and blood products to hospitals and other organizations. Memorial Blood Centers operates in Minnesota and Wisconsin and relies on the local community to donate blood to help ensure a safe and stable blood supply is available to area hospitals and other partners.
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Founded in 1968, Nebraska Community Blood Bank is a nonprofit community-based blood center that provides lifesaving blood and blood products to hospitals and other organizations. Nebraska Community Blood Bank operates in Nebraska and western Iowa and relies on the local community to donate blood to help ensure a safe and stable blood supply is available to area hospitals and other partners.
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Rhode Island Blood Center (RIBC) was founded in 1979 as a nonprofit community blood center. For over 40 years, RIBC has been the primary supplier of blood and blood products to patients being cared for in hospitals throughout Rhode Island and in neighboring states. Our mission is to help save lives by ensuring a safe, plentiful, and cost-effective blood supply. RIBC is also part of the National Marrow Donor Program and collects stem cells for transplant at its Providence location. RIBC provides therapeutic treatments for patients in local hospitals. Our state-of-the-art laboratory performs donor testing for over 400,000 donations per year. RIBC is also involved in a variety of local and national research programs in an effort to improve all aspects of the blood supply.
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Established in 2021, the Connecticut Blood Center is a non-profit, community-based blood center operated by Rhode Island Blood Center. Located in Middletown, CT, CTBC provides blood products to patients being cared for in more than a dozen hospitals around Connecticut.
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Founded in 2003 as a business unit of New York Blood Center Enterprises, CCS offers its deep expertise in the development and manufacture of cell and gene therapies, using its GMP and GTP facilities. CCS provides a true vein-to-vein solution, spanning fresh cellular collections and cord blood-derived stem cells as source material, to cell isolation, manipulation, and cryopreservation capabilities for preclinical to commercial stage products. CCS boasts a client roster comprised of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, innovative biotechnology organizations, and academic medical centers. CCS’ manufacturing headquarters are located in New York City, where it also performs cellular collections and clinical apheresis. Cell collection suites and apheresis services are also based in Providence, RI, Kansas City, MO, and St. Paul, MN.
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Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute (LFKRI) is the research branch of New York Blood Center. Since its establishment in 1964, LFKRI’s research efforts have paved the way for new blood-related products, techniques, and therapies. The Institute’s commitment to ground-breaking research has resulted in numerous landmark patents and licenses. LFKRI’s areas of blood-related research include transfusion medicine, hematology, infectious disease, epidemiology, and cellular therapy.
Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute

Built on a foundation of innovation and discovery and combining the scientific and research expertise of New York Blood Center and Community Blood Center of Kansas City, the National Center for Blood Group Genomics (NCBGG) specializes in applying precision medicine to blood transfusion to increase safety and minimize complications. Based in Kansas City, NCBGG’s mission is to provide the highest quality testing services for extended blood typing at lower cost for donor centers and the patients they serve to improve the practice of transfusion medicine, to develop the next generation of testing, and to train the next generation of leaders.
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NYBC corporate publications reflect our commitment to standards, policies, and procedures that ensure we continue to achieve our mission and maintain our core values of quality, excellence, service, leadership, respect, innovation, compassion, integrity, maintaining public trust, and sharing knowledge.

• Community Report (PDF)
• NYBC Certificate of Incorporation
• NYBC Bylaws
• Board COI and Confidentiality Policy