Item added: 27 March 2012
The Board of Parents program hosted its delegates (participating parents and journalists) at the flagship laboratory in Niel, Belgium on March 24th. Volunteer parents had been recruited in eight European countries to take part in this program.
The aim was to give the opportunity to Cryo-Save’s customers, to approach the company from a new perspective and to find out more on how a family stem cell bank works in terms of laboratory procedures and cryopreservation techniques.
For several weeks now, the participating parents, also called delegates, had been actively preparing their venue. They were collecting questions to ask Cryo-Save’s top management, posting on Facebook topics to discuss with other customers and participating to some local events to raise awareness about the benefits of stem cell storage among the public.
Miguel Fernandez from Spain said “We have enrolled the BOP, because we believe that only a firm commitment to stem cell research will give our daughter Angela the opportunity to live in a future in which diseases that are not treatable today, will be completely healed.”
On March 24th, the delegates along with their children travelled from Italy, Spain, Hungary, the Netherland, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece to the Cryo-Save flagship lab in Niel, Belgium for an exciting visit of the storage facility.
Sally Sennitt, Cryo-Save lab director, took them behind the scene and explained the cryopreservation process from the sample arrival to storage.
Luca Saponaro from Italy was expecting from the event “to see how the lab works, understand the role of people working there and the process of a sample from its arrival to storage.”
Arnoud van Tulder, CEO of Cryo-Save, explained “This is a unique chance for our customers to understand what we do and why we are passionate about it. We wanted this to be an open-discussion.”
Cryo-Save will run another round of the Board of Parents program second half of the year, in order to invite other countries and new parents to join and participate.
For more information, please contact:
Future Cells Ltd.
St. Anne’s Clinic, Triq il-Kanonku Pirotta, B’Kara , Malta
Renald.Blundell@cryo-save.com Tel: 21493553/5, Mobile: 99255637