Be part of something bigger

As a stem cell collector, you support new parents in preserving valuable stem cells from the umbilical cord and placenta at the time of birth. It’s a unique role, performed after delivery. Stem cells can be collected regardless of how long the family chooses to delay cord clamping, we fully support delayed clamping and every child’s best start in life.

Working as a stem cell collector with Cellaviva is more than just a side job, it’s a chance to make a real difference. Every time you collect stem cells from the afterbirth, you help a family preserve something unique and potentially life-saving.

You’ll meet parents at one of life’s most meaningful moments, right after the birth, and guide them safely through the process. The role requires medical competence, warmth, and precision. At the same time, you become part of a well-established team with a strong research focus. Cellaviva is part of NextCell Pharma, a Swedish biotech company at the forefront of developing new cell therapies, including treatments for type 1 diabetes.

Whether you’re a midwife, nurse, or assistant nurse with experience in labor and delivery, you can contribute. This role can also be combined with studies, another job, or retirement. Want to help shape the future, one assignment at a time?

There are more and more parents who want to save stem cells, but unfortunately we are not able to send staff to the whole country (as we do in Denmark), so we are now setting up a network of experts in childbirth who, like us, want to help expectant parents have the birth they wish for. This would involve helping with the collection of the material that needs to be sent to the lab, in order to isolate the stem cells (haematopoietic and mesenchymal stem cells).

An example of how it works:

• The family comes into the maternity ward as usual, with a cellaviva box (containing all the medical instruments needed to make a collection of both cord blood and cord tissue).
• Before that, they have been in contact with our on-call service and we in turn with you.
• If you are able to make the collection, you will take over the contact with the family.
• 2 tubes of the mother’s venous blood must be collected, this is most easily made when the IV is inserted from the hospital side, and otherwise when it is convenient.
• The umbilical cord blood is collected immediately after the umbilical cord is clamped and cut (parents decide the time) and the umbilical cord tissue thereafter.
• Everything is packed as instructed, back into the cellaviva box.
• Collection report is written and put in the box.
• The box is sealed and you call our on-call number to say everything is ready, then leave the box with the parents.
• Our on-call staff will book medical transport to the lab.