category Regional, mohali, , tags Regional, mohali, , DW BUREAU MOHALI Department of Life Sciences, Rayat Bahra University organised an awareness workshop on Blood Stem Cell Donation in collaboration with Datri Blood Stem cell donor s registry, Chennai. The workshop was conducted with a mission to save lives of those suffering from life threatening fatal blood disorders like Blood Cancer, Thalassemia, Leukaemia, Aplastic Anaemia, Sickle Cell Anaemia etc. The workshop was organized under the patronage of Chancellor Gurvinder Singh Bahra and guidance of Vice-Chancellor Dr Parvinder Singh and conveneship of Dr Simerjit Kaur, Dean Students Welfare. Anuradha Tandon, Senior Associate, Partnerships Medical Affairs, DATRI foundation, said that 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. She elaborated the process of blood stem cell donation and collected the swabs of the students who voluntarily registered with the Datri foundation. Vice-Chancellor Dr Parvinder Singh said that Rayat Bahra University is committed towards community services and this workshop is also an initiative to do something for the benefit of the society. Dr Simerjit Kaur, Dean Students Welfare, highlighted the significance of blood stem cell donation and motivated the young minds to be life savers. (editor dailyworld.in)