Corporate Profile

Cordlife Group Limited at a glance

Cordlife Group Limited (“Cordlife”, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), founded in 2001, owns and operates Asia’s largest network of private cord blood banks. The Group is committed to ensuring the health and well-being of both mother and child, amongst others. Listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange since 2012, the Group is a pioneer in private cord blood banking in Asia with extensive transplant experience, having processed and stored more than 400,000 cord blood, cord lining, cord tissue, and placenta stem cell samples.

Cordlife is an industry leader in Hong Kong, Indonesia, and the Philippines and one of the top three market leaders in India and Malaysia. Through its majority-owned subsidiary in Malaysia, Stemlife Berhad, Cordlife has an indirect stake in Thailand’s largest private cord blood bank, Thai Stemlife. In addition to cord blood, cord lining, cord tissue, and placenta banking, Cordlife offers families a comprehensive suite of clinical diagnostics, including non-invasive prenatal testing, paediatric vision screening, and newborn metabolic screening. Cordlife strives to ensure reliable quality and is committed to a customer-centric approach.

About Cordlife India

Cordlife India is a fully owned subsidiary of Cordlife Group Limited. The Indian Laboratory is AABB accredited and operates the most advanced umbilical cord and cord blood processing, testing and cryopreservation facility in the country, with a storage capacity of 200,000 cord blood units scalable by another few lakh units.

The state-of-the-art laboratory is equipped with the latest and the most modern equipment and has recently upgraded from the automated Sepax®2 to the FDA approved AXP®II. Its MNC (Mono Nuclear Cells) and CD34+ recovery rate is higher.^[1]

It maintains a clean-room infrastructure to ensure that stem cells are processed under the most sterile conditions. Located within a natural calamity proof building, the facility is also built with continuous power backup and round-the-clock surveillance system. Cordlife operates in more than 210 cities across India, making it one of the largest stem cell banking companies locally.

References:
1. Christy Kim et al. Meta-analysis of the AXP® and SEPAX® automated cord blood processing systems. CESCA Therapeutics White Paper; 2015.