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COVID-19 resources for health-care professionals

25 juin 2020
Dr. Geraldine Walsh
Did you know that there’s a wealth of information available on the Canadian Blood Services’ Professional Education website to help transfusion medicine health-care professionals as they navigate the

Call for applications! Research funding to optimize blood product use and to train next-generation researchers

19 juin 2020
Everad Tilokee
The 2020 competitions for two of the Centre for Innovation’s most important and impactful research and training funding programs are now open. The Blood Efficiency Accelerator Program supports

Canadian Blood Services scientist Alan Lazarus honoured by the Canadian transfusion community

26 mai 2020
Dr. Geraldine Walsh
The Ortho Award is presented each year at the Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine annual meeting to honour an individual member who has provided a major service or innovation in transfusion

Funding awarded to researchers to optimize blood product use

30 avril 2020
Everad Tilokee
Congratulations to the recipients of funding recently awarded through the Centre for Innovation’s Blood Efficiency Accelerator Program (or BEAP). This funding supports innovators conducting research

Funding awarded to research and education innovators

2 avril 2020
Dr. Geraldine Walsh
Congratulations to the recipients of funding recently awarded through the Centre for Innovation’s BloodTechNet Award Program and Graduate Fellowship Program. This funding supports innovators in

A novel microfluidic device to aid in the search for red blood cell “super-storers”

26 mars 2020
Emel Islamzada
Donated red blood cell units are a vital component of patient care, supporting patients with a wide variety of disorders. However, not all blood units are the same, and the benefit they can deliver to

Fibrinogen replacement products: how do they stack up against each other?

12 mars 2020
Tricia Abe
For patients who have cardiac surgery, the risk of severe blood loss is high if they have a condition called acquired hypofibrinogenemia — this means they have an undersupply of an essential blood

Why you won’t get COVID-19 from a blood transfusion

10 mars 2020
Catherine Lewis
“There is absolutely no evidence of transfusion transmission for COVID-19, or any other coronavirus,” says Dr. Steven Drews, associate director of microbiology at Canadian Blood Services.

Lay Science Writing Competition winner: Is TACO best eliminated with Lasix (TACO-BEL)?

24 février 2020
Dr. Aditi Khandelwal
Congratulations to Dr. Aditi Khandelwal, winner of the 2019-2020 Lay Science Writing Competition. Today’s post features her heartfelt winning entry.