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    • Family Typing Program
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    • Search Support for Transplant Centers
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    • Donor Navigator® web application
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  • Donor Search Process
    • Preliminary Search Request
    • Typing Request
    • Infectious Disease Marker (IDM) Testing
    • Confirmatory Typing and Health and Availability Check (HAC) Request
  • Workup Services
    • Workup
    • Confirmatory Typing and Workup in parallel (CT + WU)
    • Subsequent Donation
    • Mononuclear Cell (MNC) Request
    • Additional Tubes
    • Courier Request
    • Further Requests for Special Cases
  • Follow-up Services
    • Donor Exclusion
    • Anonymous Contact and Release of Personal Information
  • Cell Therapy Services
    • Cell Therapy Services Team
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  2. DKMS Services
  3. Donor Search Process
  4. Typing Request

Typing Request

All new DKMS donors are typed to the highest standards, using high resolution, next-generation sequencing, which also allows parallel analysis and provides extremely high throughput.

Using this process, over one million potential stem cell donors are typed each year. We continue to improve the quality of the profiles of our existing donors through re-typing projects; however, there are some donors on the database who are not typed to the same standards as all new donors are today. If a registered donor is shortlisted as a potential match and the full donor profile is not available, then the donor can be re-typed to the latest high standards via a typing request.

How to initiate a typing request for a DKMS donor

Please send your request for DKMS DE, DKMS PL, DKMS UK, DKMS CL, DKMS Africa and DKMS IN to DKMS Registry.

DKMS Registry

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+49 7071 943 2204
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DKMS US donors from the USA must be requested via NMDP.

How to send a request to DKMS Registry

Via email/fax

DKMS Registry accepts requests by fax (fax no: +49 7071 943 2299) or services@dkmsregistry.org for all pre-workup services. For requests by fax or email, we recommend using WMDA forms, but we also accept other forms as long as they contain the information needed to perform the requested task.

WMDA Forms

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DKMS Registry will provide you with the request results as soon as they are available via email.

Via Donor Navigator®

International registries and transplant centers that are registered users of DKMS Registry’s software Donor Navigator® can and are encouraged to request DKMS donors directly through Donor Navigator®. We recommend this option if no EMDIS connection with the DKMS Registry is possible.

The additional benefits for registered Donor Navigator® users comprise an overview of all cases of the respective registry, access to the updated progress of each request and a user-specific notification system both via email and within the software.

If you are interested in receiving further details about Donor Navigator®, please follow the link to our Donor Navigator® web application.

Donor Navigator Web-Application

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Via EMDIS

DKMS Registry is connected to several registries via EMDIS. Preliminary search requests as well as requests for Extended Typing (typing request), Confirmatory Typing (Sample request), Infectious Disease Marker testing (IDM request) or Donor Reservations can be received via EMDIS.

If you would like to establish an EMDIS connection with DKMS Registry, please follow the link to our service section.

EMDIS Connection to DKMS Registry

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What happens next?

We will contact the donor and ask for a new cheek swab. The sample will be tested in the DKMS Life Science Lab and the results will be communicated to the transplant center, usually within one week.

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