Report on the Felicitation Ceremony of First Student Stem Cell Donor

The Department of Life Sciences had organized a felicitation ceremony on Feb 11, 2020 in the KE Auditorium, Block IV, Central Campus, for the first student stem cell donor from India, Mr Suresh Varma, from the SCRI registry developed during the Stem Cell Registry Drive organized last year in CHRIST University, Central Campus under the guidance of Dr Suma S, Associate Professor, Dept of Life Sciences in collaboration with an NGO, DKMS, Germany and BMST, Bangalore.  Suresh Varma is a second year undergraduate student of BCom F in CHRIST (Deemed to be University).  He willingly donated his blood stem cells when it came a match for a patient who needed stem cells for the treatment. Stem cells are generally matched by HLA typing and only if the correct match is obtained, they can be received by cancer. patients.  The department of Life Sciences felicitated Mr Suresh Varma with a cash prize for hisaThe Department of Life Sciences had organized a felicitation ceremony on Feb 11, 2020 in the KE Auditorium, Block IV, Central Campus, for the first student stem cell donor from India, Mr Suresh Varma, from the SCRI registry developed during the Stem Cell Registry Drive organized last year in CHRIST University, Central Campus under the guidance of Dr Suma S, Associate Professor, Dept of Life Sciences in collaboration with an NGO, DKMS, Germany and BMST, Bangalore.  Suresh Varma is a second year undergraduate student of BCom F in CHRIST (Deemed to be University).  He willingly donated his blood stem cells when it came a match for a patient who needed stem cells for the treatment. Stem cells are generally matched by HLA typing and only if the correct match is obtained, they can be received by cancer. patients.  The department of Life Sciences felicitated Mr Suresh Varma with a cash prize for his noble and selfless service for the suffering mankind.  noble and selfless service for the suffering mankind.