NY Blood Center searching for stem cell
match for Bronx-born college student
BY BRONX TIMES
New York Blood Center
(NYBC) is hosting a series of
blood drives throughout April
with Be The Match to fi nd a
stem cell match for a Bronx college
student diagnosed with
aplastic anemia.
Patients are most likely to
match with donors who share
the same ethnic background.
Emil Orlando Temple, 20, of
University Heights, is Dominican
and Panamanian and requires
a Hispanic donor, with
odds of fi nding a match currently
standing at 46%. Until
he can fi nd a match, Temple
depends on blood and platelet
transfusions.
At 13, he was diagnosed
with a rare cancer called osteosarcoma
and received surgery
to have it removed. Three years
later Temple’s tumor returned
and he had to undergo a second
surgery.
After his successful recovery,
he was able to play high
school baseball and football.
He is now a junior at the University
of Albany, studying
communications with a minor
in business. However, with his
recent diagnosis, he has had to
put school on hold to focus on
his health.
“We are calling on New
Yorkers to donate blood and join
the Be The Match registry to
potentially make a life-saving
stem-cell donation,” said Marcelle
Amiot-Priso, director of
the Be The Match Program at
New York Blood Center. “Emil
Orlando Temple is a student,
son and friend to many. With a
stem cell donation, Emil has an
incredible life ahead of him.”
To make an appointment at
one of the blood drives, sign up
here.
To join the Be the Match registry,
you must be between the
ages of 18 and 44. If you fi t the
criteria, cannot make the blood
drives and would be interested
in making a lifesaving donation,
please sign up here or by
texting EMIL to 61474.
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, A 32 PR. 16-22, 2021 BTR
The blood drives will be
hosted on:
Sunday, April 11, 9:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m.– YMCA Flushing, 138-
46 Northern Blvd, Flushing
Wednesday, April 14, 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.– Union Square Community
Blood Drive, 27 Union
Square West, New York, NY–
Room 302
Thursday, April 15, 1 to 7
p.m. – Shops at Atlas Park, Former
Pet Shop, 8000 Cooper Avenue,
Glendale
Friday, April 16, 1 to 7
p.m.– Queens Place Mall, 88-01
Queens Blvd., Elmhurst
Monday, April 19, 9 a.m. to 3
p.m.– Newburg Armory Unity
Center, 321 South Williams
Street, Newburgh
Thursday, April 22, 1 to 7
p.m. – Newport Centre Mall Jersey
City , 30 Mall Drive West,
2nd Floor, Jersey City, N.J.
Friday, April 23, 10 a.m. to
4 p.m.– JCC Harlem, 318 West
118th Street, New York, NY
Saturday, April 24, 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.– Riverbay Administrative,
2049 Bartow Avenue,
Room 31
Thursday, April 29, 2
to 6:30 p.m. – City of Long
Beach, 650 Magnolia Blvd.,
Long Beach
Emil in the hospital with his mother PHOTO PROVIDED
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