National consultant in Pediatric oncology and hematology Prof. Jan Styczyński from the Collegium Medicum of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń was honored by the DKMS Foundation “for co-creating the idea saving life”. The statuette was awarded on the occasion of the 10,000th bone marrow transplant from the Foundation donor.

Prof. Styczyński is a donor of hematopoietic cells, probably as the only transplantologist in Poland. For many years, he has been cooperating with the DKMS Foundation and, as an expert, participates in educational programs for donors of hematopoietic cells and for centers collecting cells.

The DKMS Foundation has been operating in Poland since 2008. Since then, the number of donors has increased 70 times and today Poland is the fifth largest in the world in terms of the number of donors and the percentage of donors in the entire population. From the time of the world’s first successful bone marrow transplant in 1957, more than 1.5 million transplants were performed by 2019. Every year this number increases by over 80,000.

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