Committee Member Wang Haijing: As the fourth largest bone marrow bank in the world, the development of Chinese bone marrow bank should be “five modernizations”

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Source: People’s Daily Health Client

National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Wang Haijing, member and former vice-chairman of the Red Cross Society of China. Photo courtesy of the Red Cross Foundation of China

“The overall scale, technical level and application of the Chinese bone marrow bank still have a lot of room for development, and can play a greater role in maintaining life, health and safety.” During the two sessions this year , Wang Haijing, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former vice president of the Red Cross Society of China, brought a proposal on expanding the application field of the Chinese bone marrow bank. He suggested that the relevant state departments should pay attention to and pay attention to the standardization, standardization, large-scale, intelligent and intensive construction and development of the Chinese bone marrow database and database.

Up to now, the China Bone Marrow Bank has stored more than 3 million human leucocyte antigen (HLA) typing data, making it the fourth largest bone marrow bank in the world and the largest Chinese bone marrow bank; By the end of 2021, it has provided HLA matching search services for 100,825 hematological patients at home and abroad, and realized 12,582 hematopoietic stem cell donations, of which 367 were donated abroad.

“With the development of basic science and medical technology, HLA typing data is not only used in clinical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation matching, but also in immune disease diagnosis, personalized drug selection, cellular immunotherapy, matching platelets. Infusion and other fields also show broad application prospects.” Wang Haijing introduced, in addition, because HLA data has the characteristics of population genetic polymorphism, it can also be applied to population genetics and anthropology research such as population migration and ethnic integration.

Therefore, regarding the future development prospects of China Bone Marrow Bank, Wang Haijing believes that the existing overall scale, technical level and application field of China Bone Marrow Bank still have a large room for development, which can play a better role in maintaining life, health and safety. big effect.

He suggested that the relevant state departments should pay attention to and pay attention to the standardization, standardization, scale, intelligence and intensive construction and development of the Chinese bone marrow bank and database; organize experts in related fields to demonstrate how to expand the Chinese bone marrow bank The application field of data and biological samples can make it develop healthily and obtain the best social and economic benefits; it is recommended to establish a special fund and policy system for the Chinese bone marrow bank at the national level to ensure and promote the sustainable development of related work in this field.

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