Blood Transfusion Institute of Serbia

Blood Transfusion Institute of Serbia (BTIS) is highly specialized, scientific research and educational transfusion medicine referral  institution. 

BTIS was established on October 24^th, 1944, with the task to collect voluntary donors` blood all over the territory of the former federal state. During the past decades, thanks primarily to the activities of the BTIS, the system of organized, voluntary, unpaid, anonymous blood donation was established. Keeping up with the most up to date international achievements in transfusion medicine, BTIS implemented into routine practice modern methods of blood preservation, various types of blood donation, at the same time developing the principles of rational haemotherapy, and, in accordance with the scientific achievements, BTIS successively implemented donors` blood testing to markers of certain infectious diseases transmissible by transfusion. Within the BTIS, several laboratories were established, as well as the National  Plasma Fractionation Center, HLA Typing and Haemophila Centers. Eversince it has been established, BTIS has collected, processed, tested and distributed almost three million blood units, performed almost 60 millions of laboratory analyses and fractionated over 500 tons of human plasma.