A representative from the US Embassy in Belgrade, the regional medical laboratory scientist Cecil Dunn visited the Military Medical Academy in order to get to know the work of the Institute for Transfusion and Hemobiology and the Institute of Medical Biochemistry MMA. A guest was welcomed by the Head of the Institute for Transfusion and Hemobiology Prof. Dr. Bela Balint, a corresponding member of SANU and the Head of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry Colonel Doc. Dr. Janko Pejovic.

Topics of the meeting included the methods of collecting blood supply for the needs of VMA and cooperation with other institutions in the field of transfusion, as well as equipment for the control and storage of blood products. In addition, it was also discussed about the accreditation of MMA laboratories and the introduction of a new information system. During the visit, the guest was shown the laboratory equipment and methods used in the blood analysis at the Institute for Transfusion and Hemobiology, the Institute of Medical Biochemistry, and Emergency Center MMA where the laboratory for rapid analysis of blood is placed.