Staff

ALEXEI STEPHENSON, TRANSLATOR

MARINA MOSYAKOVA, OPERATIONS MANAGER

Sergei Gerasimov: Being a doctor is tough—but you have to help people

This summer, Gift of Life carried out a fundraising campaign for Sergei Gerasimov, a 16-year-old athlete from Samara. With the aid of donors and fundraisers, we were able to gather over £16,500 and pay for a vital operation, a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor. The operation was a success and now Sergei is recuperating at the Dmitry Rogachev Centre.
Vital medicine for Kamil

We are raising £10,000 for 7-year-old Kamil Ismailov from Lobnya, Moscow region, Russia, to help him survive thalassaemia, a rare life-threatening illness, interfering with the production of haemoglobin. To provide Kamil with Defitelio, a highly effective but very expensive medicine, we ask you for support. Please donate now.
Kristina Tarasova: They won’t cure this disease in Kursk. Look to Moscow and Maschan to save you

The sisters Kristina and Anna Tarasova (though they now go by their married names) live in Kursk, and have a remarkable story to tell us about how Kristina was saved from aplastic anaemia. There’s only one way to cure this disease: to carry out a transplant which will replace the dysfunctional bone marrow with healthy donated marrow. To the great delight of their parents, their doctors and of course the sisters themselves, Anna was able to become her sister’s donor.
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