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Nikki Nastasi, a 2011 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û Biology graduate, who is a stem cell lab specialist at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC for the bone marrow transplant team, recently became a bone marrow donor herself.

Prior to her studying biology at Saint Francis, Nikki had done a mouth swab in 2006 through , operated by the national marrow donor program. It wasn’t until after she began her career at Children’s hospital that she was contacted as a donor match.

Her bone marrow transplant goes to a 3 year old boy with acute myeloid leukemia, a rare blood and bone marrow cancer.