International Leukemia Organization

1907 Greentree Road
Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003

The International Leukemia Organization (ILO) was founded in 1992 by opera singer, Badiene Magaziner and her son, Erik Emanuel Boelkow. Erik was diagnosed with acute myelogenic leukemia in 1991. Efforts to find a donor for a life-saving bone marrow transplant were unsuccessful, and Erik died on February 7, 1993. Her was 13 years old.

If a match cannot be found on the National Marrow Donor Program registry, desperate patients and their families are forced to finance their own donor searches. Badiene and Erik experienced the hardships afflicting families of patients needing transplants, and were determined to help.

The International Leukemia Organization was founded to raise funds to test volunteer marrow donors, to fund adjunctive research, and to promote public awareness of the need for donors and for a cure.

All tax-deductible donations to the ILO may be sent to the above address.