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Is there a bone marrow registry in Monaco?

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As of , we haven’t found a bone marrow donor registry that people who live in Monaco can join. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Monaco’s hospital, the Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace, runs a blood transfusion center but its website has no stem cell donor registration, and France’s registry posts its kit only to a French address. 1 2

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Monaco at a glance
RegionWestern Europe, Europe 8
PopulationAbout 39,000 (2023) 9
RegistryNone found as of 6
World donor searchNo organization based in Monaco lists adult donors or cord blood units in WMDA’s Search & Match (). 10
TransplantsMonaco’s Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace says blood donations help treat leukemias, whose chemotherapy temporarily destroys bone marrow cells, but we haven’t found a stem cell transplant service in Monaco. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. 1
Where we looked5 places, in French and English
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What we found in Monaco

Monaco’s hospital covers blood donation only; France’s registry needs a French address. 1 2

WhereLanguageFindingDate
World Marrow Donor AssociationEnglishOn Oct 11, 2026, no organization based in Monaco appeared on the World Marrow Donor Association’s member map or in its organization database. 6 7
Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace (Monaco)FrenchOn Oct 11, 2026, a search for “moelle” (marrow) on the website of Monaco’s Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace returned only blood donation information. 1
Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace (Monaco)FrenchOn Oct 16, 2026, a search of the website of Monaco’s Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace for “greffe” (transplant), “hématologie” and “cellules souches” (stem cells) found nothing, and its blood donation information said the Principality needs 5,000 blood donations a year. 1
Gouvernement Princier de MonacoFrenchOn Nov 15, 2022, Monaco’s government reported an agreement under which France’s blood service, the EFS, supplies blood products to the Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace’s blood transfusion center, as donations made in Monaco cover only about 40% of the needs of the Principality’s three care facilities; it said nothing about marrow donation. 4
Centre Scientifique de MonacoFrenchOn Oct 16, 2026, the Centre Scientifique de Monaco said that since 2012, under an agreement backed by Monaco’s government and Prince Albert II, Eurocord-Paris has run Monacord there, an international observatory on sickle cell disease that studies stem cell transplants from a matched sibling; Monacord isn’t a donor registry. 5

Monaco Tribune reported that in June 2022 Prince Albert II started the Sapaudia Monoïkos from the Place du Palais, a ride of nearly 600 kilometers by 100 cyclists to Albertville, held to promote bone marrow donation with stops at three schools along the way. 11

Can people in Monaco join a registry abroad?

France’s registry asks applicants for a French postal address for its saliva kit, and people living abroad can apply only when they are about to move back to France, as it said on Oct 15, 2026. 2

Italy’s registry, IBMDR, asks people who join to stay in Italy for at least six months and sends people who live in another country to that country’s own registry, as its English rules said on Oct 16, 2026. 3

Questions about Monaco

Are bone marrow or stem cell transplants done in Monaco?

Monaco’s Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace says blood donations help treat leukemias, whose chemotherapy temporarily destroys bone marrow cells, but we haven’t found a stem cell transplant service in Monaco. That doesn’t mean there isn’t one. 1

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Sources

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Registries

  1. Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace (Monaco). Don du sang, Centre de Transfusion Sanguine and site search "moelle".
  2. Agence de la biomédecine. FAQ - S'inscrire & donner. Checked
  3. IBMDR - E.O. Ospedali Galliera. Iscrizione al Registro Nazionale Italiano Donatori di Midollo Osseo.

Official bodies

  1. Gouvernement Princier de Monaco. Signature d’une Convention entre l’Établissement français du sang (EFS) et le Centre de transfusion sanguine (CTS) du Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace (CHPG). Updated Nov 15, 2022. Checked
  2. Centre Scientifique de Monaco. Monacord. Checked

Figures and lists

  1. World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA). Find your registry.
  2. WMDA. WMDA Share organisation database (public view).
  3. United Nations Statistics Division. Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49): Overview (English table).
  4. UN DESA Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024: Total population by sex (CSV).
  5. WMDA. WMDA Total Number of Donors and Cord blood units.

Other sources

  1. Monaco Tribune. La Sapaudia Monoïkos, un don de soi pour lutter contre la leucémie. Updated Jun 21, 2022. Checked