Working with the healthcare community to provide lifesaving therapies to patients and support the development of advanced therapies. YOU give. THEY live. ♥ Every day, South Texas Blood & Tissue saves lives through blood, cord blood, birth tissue, tissue, and charitable donations as well as by supporting research for new therapies. Start your giving journey 👉 SouthTexasBlood.org The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center (STBTC) is a nonprofit community blood center that provides blood, plasma, platelets and other blood components to 100 hospitals in 48 South Texas counties. It's the largest blood supplier in our region. STBTC has a 47-year history serving the South Texas community. It is part of the BioBridge Global family of nonprofit organizations, which offers services in regenerative medicine and research including blood banking and resource management; cellular therapy; umbilical cord blood collection and storage; donated human tissue recovery and distribution for transplant; and testing of blood and plasma products to help patients in the U.S. and worldwide. STBTC has seven donor rooms in South Texas and conducts hundreds of mobile blood drives each year.