DATRI BLOOD STEM CELL DONORS RECRUITMENT DRIVE ON 1ST JULY 2017 || MANA ANDHRA NEWS

DATRI is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 2009 with a mission to save lives of those suffering from life threatening blood disorders like Blood Cancer, Thalassemia, Aplastic Anemia etc. A blood stem cell transplant can save the lives of such patients. With very few registered donors available in India, the possibility of finding a match for an Indian anywhere in the world is very bleak. Inspired by the registries in USA and motivated to create a viable registry of Indian donors, Mr. Raghu Rajagopal together with Dr. Nezih Cereb and Dr. Soo Young Yang of Histogenetics, a global leader in high resolution HLA typing, set up DATRI (meaning donor in Sanskrit) with a donor base of a mere 3000 donors in 2009. DATRI is working towards creating a wide and diverse database of potential blood stem cell donors that can be accessed by any patient, living anywhere in the world, in need of a blood stem cell transplant.