Take a tour of Histostem’s Seoul Cord Blood Bank, with David Stark, President of AmStem International, who performed an audit and site inspection in 2008.

“The Histostem lab is staffed and ready to receive cord blood specimens 24 hours a day.  Couriers bring the cord blood specimens direct from hospitals all over Korea.”

“The Director of the lab is Bokhwan Chun, Ph.D., who runs a very tight lab. In my opinion – having monitored research facilities for over 16 years –I believe he has SOP and GLP rules and regulations that would make any US lab proud.”

“In fact, 90% of the lab staff is at the Ph.D. level, which is extremely rare and cost-prohibitive in the U.S.  The lab has all new equipment and a spot check revealed all were calibrated to U.S. GLP levels.”

“This is the lab’s SOP library – it is one of the most extensive and well-organized documentation I have ever seen.  (I wish I could find this level of organization every time I perform an audit…)”

“This next floor was extensive, three major rooms all separated by glass.  This is where the separation of the stem cell from the cord blood was processed. They have meticulous records of every step, detailed SOPs, QA/QC through all processes.”

“I was shown the process of freezing the CB cells, the surveillance software for every storage tank, and its maintenance software -- all state of the art and recordable and fully archived.  They even had LIVE VIDEO of who is working in the tank room!”

“The tank room where they store the cord blood is actually one of the most impressive facilities I have ever seen.  TWO ENTIRE FLOORS of over 80 thousand units of cord blood (and growing), supervised by another MD / Ph.D.”

“Histostem has recently been awarded U.S. and European patents for their most efficient way of isolating stem cells from fresh or frozen cord blood, and they have a method of expanding the volume of cells without using serum.”

“Dr. Hoon Han and Histostem, together with the Seoul Cord Blood Bank, are, in my opinion, one of the most advanced and well developed stem cell organizations on the planet.”

David Stark, President
AmStem International