The Steve Mills Stem Cell Laboratory
The charity fund he established before he died raised more than £100,000 towards creating a stem cell laboratory, which was opened at Southampton’s Royal South Hants Hospital a year later. The charity continued to provide funds for research into leukemia over the next 18 years, and in September 2006 the laboratory moved to a new location at Southampton General Hospital. The new unit was officially opened on 27 September 2006 by Steve’s widow Jo and former Southampton footballer and manager, Alan Ball, who himself died seven months later from a heart attack.
- The Steve Mills Stem Cell Laboratory processes, stores and issues stem cell products for transplant.
- The processing of a patient’s stem cell products takes around 3 hours to complete.
- Stem cell donations are processed as soon as they arrive at the laboratory because stem cells have a shelf life of just 24 hours.
- The laboratory reacts quickly to hospital requests and processes up to 12 stem cell donations a week.
- The laboratory processes stem cells for Southampton University Hospitals Trust, Bournemouth Hospital, Poole Hospital, Salisbury District Hospital and Dorset County Hospital.
- In addition to processing, storing and issuing stem cell products, the laboratory undertakes critical research and development of new cancer therapies and treatments.
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