INDIANAPOLIS — A 14-year-old with leukemia at Indiana University Health’s Riley Hospital for Children became the world’s first pediatric patient to receive a successful bone marrow stem cell transplant from a deceased donor in February.
Riley Children’s Health physicians performed this first pediatric procedure on Noah Britt, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in August 2025.
When neither chemotherapy nor a stem cell transplant from a living donor were successful, Noah’s physicians determined his best option was to receive a deceased donor bone marrow stem cell transplant through the HOPE Program…