Zagreb County, the Ana Rukavina Foundation and the Department of Transfusion Medicine are working together to launch the project “Brave Heart of Zagreb Ring”!
The Ana Rukavina Foundation, in association with the Department of Transfusion Medicine and Stem Cell Therapy at the University Hospital Center Zagreb, and with the support of Zagreb County, has launched the humanitarian project titled “Brave Heart of Zagreb Ring”. The aim of the project is to bring together all of the towns in Zagreb County in an action to raise funds for the expansion of the Croatian Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors, as well as for tissue typing the collected blood samples.
The presentation of the project “Brave Heart of Zagreb Ring” will be held on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 10 AM at the premises of Zagreb County, 6th floor – Hall 1, Ivana Lučića 2a, Zagreb.
The presentation of the project will be attended by the following representatives of the cities of Zagreb County:
1. Dražen Šarić, University Hospital Center – Zagreb, Department of Transfusion Medicine
• opening speech and brief presentation of the project “Brave Heart of Zagreb Ring”
2. Ana Rukavina Foundation: presentation of the activities to develop the Croatian Registry of voluntary bone marrow and stem cell donors
4. Dr. Branka Golubić Čepulić, D.Sc., Director of the Department of Transfusion Medicine and Head of the Cord Blood Bank “Ana Rukavina” at University Hospital Center – Zagreb
• presentation of the work of the Public Cord Blood Bank “Ana Rukavina”
5. Rudolf Vujević, Zagreb County Deputy Prefect