ARGENTINA · INCUCAI
Joining a stem cell donor registry from Argentina
For people who live in Argentina. Live somewhere else? Find your country.
INCUCAI signs up people who live in Argentina. Here’s who can join, how it works and what happens after.
You can join here, through INCUCAI.
Browsing from another country? See how joining works where you live.
Ways to join
One service signs up people who live in Argentina: INCUCAI.
INCUCAI
Run by Instituto Nacional Central Único Coordinador de Ablación e Implante (INCUCAI), a public body.
18–40years old to join
- Who it’s for
- People who live in Argentina, aged 18 to 40.
- Language
- Spanish
Why this one first Argentina’s national registry: give blood at an authorised blood bank, or pre-register online and give a cheek swab (18–40).
Link checked Read the registry’s rules (opens in a new tab)
Cord blood donation
Hospital Garrahan cord blood bank
Run by Banco Público de Sangre de Cordón Umbilical – Hospital Garrahan, a public hospital or university service.
- Language
- Spanish
Link checked Read Hospital Garrahan cord blood bank’s own page (opens in a new tab)
For patients and families
INCUCAI
Run by Instituto Nacional Central Único Coordinador de Ablación e Implante (INCUCAI), a public body.
- Language
- Spanish
Who can join
These are INCUCAI’s rules, in short. Its own pages have the full list, and the registry decides.
- Where you live
- Argentina.
- Age to join
- 18 to 40
- How long you stay on the registry
- Until your 60th birthday, unless you ask to leave.
- Your health
- Most healthy adults can join. Some conditions rule it out. Read the registry’s health rules (opens in a new tab)
What happens after you join
From your sample to a possible call. Each registry runs its own process; these are the steps they share.
Check you can join.
INCUCAI sets its own age range and health rules. Its own pages have them.
Give a sample.
The registry takes a sample to record your tissue type. Its own pages say how.
You’re on the registry.
Your tissue type is recorded, so searches for patients can find you.
If you match a patient.
The registry contacts you, checks you’re still willing and well, and arranges more tests.
Donation.
If you go ahead, you’ll donate blood stem cells or bone marrow. The registry explains what’s involved and supports you through it.
Keep your contact details up to date so the registry can reach you. What donating is like
Questions
Can I join if I’m not a citizen?
Registries usually decide by where you live, not by nationality. INCUCAI’s own rules say who can join.
I’m already on another country’s registry. Do I join again?
Registries share their lists with searches around the world, so ask your registry before you join a second one.
Is giving blood the same as joining?
Giving blood helps patients who need transfusions. It doesn’t put you on a stem cell donor registry unless that registry says it does.
Who is the Jada Bascom Foundation?
We’re a US charity. We don’t run a registry, and we aren’t part of INCUCAI. We help people find the official registry where they live.
Live somewhere else?
Registries usually sign up people by where they live, not by nationality.
Learn more
BE SOMEONE’S TORSTEN
The same search found Jada’s donor in Germany.
Jada was a baby in Spokane, Washington, when doctors found she had acute myeloid leukemia. Her match was a stranger five thousand miles away: Torsten, who had joined the DKMS registry at a donor drive in Germany the year before she was born. If you live in Argentina, your place in that search starts with INCUCAI.
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Sources
The registries’ own pages
- INCUCAI / Ministerio de Salud (argentina.gob.ar). Donar médula ósea (opens in a new tab). Undated.Checked
- Ministerio de Salud (argentina.gob.ar). Inscribirse como donante de CPH (opens in a new tab). Undated.Checked
- INCUCAI. Registro Nacional de Donantes de CPH (opens in a new tab). Undated.Checked
- INCUCAI / argentina.gob.ar. Argentina alcanzó la autosuficiencia en la tipificación de donantes de médula ósea (opens in a new tab). Updated Sep 21, 2026.Checked
Government and official registers
- Jada Bascom Foundation. About us: Jada’s story. Undated.Checked
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