YEREVAN, APRIL 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The European Federation for Immunogenetics will give the international quality certificate to the Laboratory of Blood Antibodies Diagnosis of the "Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry" charity fund. As Sevak Avagian, the Executive Director of the fund mentioned at the March 30 press-conference, they satisfied all the demands proposed by the federation to get that certificate. According to him, as the registry is a body working with international structures, so having such a certificate is very important. As Krissa Papasteriades, the representative of the federation mentioned, existence of a package facting the quality of qualified specialists, modern equipment and work are among the demands presented to laboratories to get such qualification. It was also mentioned that the Armenian registry has more than 10 thousand donors at present. 400 patients have addressed to the registry by now, data of 300 of who coincided with data of donors registered at the Armenian registry. 6 marrow stem cell transplantations with participation of donors of the registry were implemented in different countries based on compatibilities found out till today.

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