DKMS LIFE SCIENCE LAB

DKMS Life Science Lab, a subsidiary of DKMS, is atissue typing laboratory that has been set up in accordance with state-of-the-art scientific aspects, that is accredited pursuant to international guidelines (ASHI and EFI) and which is currently one of the world’s largest institutions of this type.

DKMS Life Science Lab conducts more than 10,000 HLA tissue typings of stem cell donors for DKMS every month. The tissue typing procedure applied in the process is the so-called high resolution tissue typing. In the adjacentclinical HLA lab, HLA tissue typings and compatibility examinations are conducted for patients, family members and HLA tissue typings in the scope ofthe unrelated donor search as well as scientific studies.

The search unit connected with DKMS Life Science Lab is accredited by the ZKRD Central Bone Marrow Donor Registry in Germany and it conducts searches for family and unrelated donors for individual patients.