As well as our financial commitment to diverse genealogical and historical associations and institutions in Austria, we also strive to help bone marrow transplantation patients free of charge.

Although 52,000 people in Austria have put their names on the Austrian Ancestral Cell Register and the search for suitable donors is carried out via an international network, very often a suitable donor with the right tissue type (the so-called human leucocyte antigen) cannot be found, as there are approximately 2,000 known tissue types in a wide variety of combinations.

The best chance of finding a suitable donor is amongst first-degree and second-degree relatives as tissue types are related to family background. Central Europeans, for example, have a good chance of finding a suitable donor in Central Europe, the Americas or Australia (the latter because of the history of emigration).