Tag Archives: bone marrow

By Heidi Zheng Last month, the Okochi family from Montclair, New Jersey spent an unforgettable Father’s Day in Washington, D.C., where Jiro Okochi met with federal lawmakers as an advocate for Be The Match, an organization that had once saved his son’s life. Now 10 years old, Finn Okochi is a survivor of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (WAS), a hereditary disorder that is present …

By Jennie L. Ilustre Rosslyn, Virginia–“This 15th anniversary means so much to me,” DC Asian Marrow Network Founder and President Ida Wang remarked, as 150 guests began to trickle in at the Banquet for Life celebration, held on October 6 at the China Garden restaurant here. “When I started this organization to honor the memory of my nephew Andrew, I …

In the last edition of Asian Fortune we mentioned the worldwide search to find a matching bone marrow donor for two year old Jeremy Kong of San Francisco, who has been suffering with a rare form of leukemia. The problem is that ethnicity plays a role in finding suitable matches, and Asian Americans, and Asians worldwide, have been slower than …