PRESS RELEASE
Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry
3111 Los Feliz Avenue, #206, Los Angeles, CA 90039
Contact person: Dr. Frieda Jordan
Phone: (323) 663-3609
Email: [email protected]
AUA students, faculty become latest ABMDR donors
Los Angeles, April 11, 2015 – One hundred and twenty seven students
and faculty members at the American University of Armenia (AUA) became
the latest potential bone marrow stem cell donors to join the ranks of
the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (ABMDR). They joined the
pan-Armenian organization on March 31 and April 9, during recruitment
drives held on campus, in Yerevan.
The recruitments were led by ABMDR executive director Dr. Sevak Avagyan,
ABMDR medical director Dr. Mihran Nazaretyan, and the university’s
Graduate Student Council. The ABMDR team was enthusiastically welcomed
on campus by AUA president Dr. Armen Der Kiureghian, department heads,
lecturers, professors, and graduate and undergraduate students. The new
recruits included AUA vice president of Finance and CFO Gevorg Goyunyan
and Admissions director Arina Zohrabian.
`We consider every single recruitment as a victory for our mission to
save lives in Armenia and across the world,’ Dr. Avagyan said. `And
when we witness a wonderful spirit of volunteerism at an institution
such as AUA, our work becomes all the more worthwhile.’
`As our students and faculty responded to the call of ABMDR by giving
just a small amount of blood to help save a life, they were truly
following the Latin maxim facta non verba, which means `actions speak
louder than words,” said Dr. Der Kiureghian.
The AUA recruitments have come on the heels of two ABMDR donor
recruitments last month at the Police Academy of the Republic of
Armenia, in Yerevan.
About the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry: Established in 1999,
ABMDR, a nonprofit organization, helps Armenians and non-Armenians
worldwide survive life-threatening blood-related illnesses by recruiting
and matching donors to those requiring bone marrow stem cell
transplants. To date, the registry has recruited over 26,000 donors in
24 countries across four continents, identified 2,482 patients, and
facilitated 20 bone marrow transplants.
From: A. Papazian