Yale: Yale Honored by Be The Match® for Efforts to Help Save Lives

[News from the FCS]

For five years, Yale University has been helping save lives through marrow donor registration drives inspired by women’s ice hockey player Mandi Schwartz ’10 (1988-2011). In recognition of those efforts -- which have found donor matches for at least 20 patients with life-threatening illnesses -- Yale was honored last month at the annual National Marrow Donor Program®/Be The Match Council Meeting in Minneapolis. Mandi’s parents, Carol and Rick Schwartz, flew in from Wilcox, Sask., to accept Be The Match’s Partnership Award on Yale’s behalf.

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