Two Greek-letter organizations are trying to help out a friend in need.

Asian-interest Greek-letter groups Sigma Psi Zeta sorority and Pi Delta Psi fraternity hosted a bone marrow registration drive on campus Monday. The drives were held in hopes of finding a donor for Wincheng Lin, a Sigma Psi Zeta member who suffers from Leukemia in New York and needs a bone marrow transplant.

The National Bone Marrow Donor Program conducted the event in Kogan Plaza. About 60 people registered at GW, and nationally, all chapters of Sigma Psi Zeta held bone marrow registration drives for the same purpose. Lin is an alumna of the University of Rochester.

“We wanted to raise awareness in honor of our sister (from the University of Rochester chapter),” said freshman Mei Loo, president of Sigma Psi Zeta. “We received a lot of positive feedback, and a good amount of people registered.”

Anne Marie Dizon, a senior and a member of Sigma Psi Zeta said she was pleased with the event’s turnout.

“Many people just stopped by to offer their support and say that they were already registered donors,” she said.

Participants needed only to fill out donor forms, be in good health and complete a cotton swab of cheek cells in order to become a registered donor. Possible donors also must be between 18 and 60 years old. Donors who are later matched to patients attend information sessions in order to learn more about the risks and procedure for a donation.

According to an informational handout made available at the drive by NBMDP, bone marrow donation recipients might need marrow or blood cells depending on the specifics of each patient.

Donors for bone marrow undergo a procedure under anesthesia in which doctors use hollow needles to extract liquid marrow from the back of their pelvic bones, the handout said. Donors’ bone marrow will be completely replaced within four to six weeks from the surgery, and donors are back to their normal routine within a few days.