U of T Rounds: Exploring the RBC Storage Lesion – Animal models, Human studies, and the Logic of Discovery

James C Zimring MD, PhD
Director and Chief Scientific Officer, BloodworksNW Research Institute
Professor, Dept. Lab Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
Professor, Div. of Hematology, Dept. of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine

• Understand metabolomic and genetic implications of animal studies on donor variation on blood storage.
• Appreciate the role of lipid metabolism in the functional storage lesion of human RBCs.
• Understand how the logic of discovery and the logic of justification work, real-time, in a practical example of basic and applied blood store research.

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