Departments

Our Transplant Center Services (TCS) team aims to improve the patient’s situation by understanding the needs and challenges of physicians, registries, transplant centers, and search units worldwide.

It is not just the number of donors in our database that is important, but also the quality of our donor pool. Our HLA Services team ensures that our donor pool’s quality remains at the highest possible level, making us a global leader in this area.

Our Confirmatory Typing (CT) teams coordinate and arrange all necessary tests and checks when a donor is shortlisted as a potential match for a patient in need of a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. This is necessary to determine which donor is the most suitable match.

Once a donor has been identified as the best possible match for a patient in need of a transplant and the decision is made to proceed with a donation, our Workup teams are responsible for the next steps.

The health and well-being of our donors is our top priority. Our Follow-up and Donor–Patient Contacts teams (FU/DPC) are responsible for the post-donation care and follow-up for all our DKMS donors, as well as for any communication between the donor and patient.

The Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) is the scientific research unit of DKMS. Many questions remain unanswered in the treatment of blood cancer and other diseases of the hematopoietic system. DKMS, therefore, promotes life-saving and innovative research in the field of blood cancer treatment.

Our Scientific Projects team is responsible for pursuing research questions regarding the large pool of registered donors with DKMS.

Our physicians work in various positions and provide medical advice and expertise to all DKMS departments.

Our Bioinformatics team’s goal is to ensure that donors are typed to the highest standard possible through specialized software development and are available for searches with the highest degree of accuracy.