Our partnership with the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia is helping to train the next generation of researchers in transfusion science. This blog post highlights just some of the achievements accomplished by CBR trainees in education, training or knowledge mobilization. Erik Lamoureux, a PhD Student from the Ma Lab (Multi-Scale Design Laboratory) at CBR and recipient of a Canadian Blood Services graduate fellowship award, provides a summary of his lab’s paper “Assessing red blood cell deformability from microscopy images using deep learning”. Below is an

Our partnership with the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia is helping to train the next generation of researchers in transfusion science. This blog post highlights just some of the achievements accomplished by CBR trainees in education, training or knowledge mobilization. This post was written by Waris Bhatia and Paniz Ghavimi, summer student CBR alumni. This post originally appeared on the Centre for Blood Research blog in September 2022.  The CBR’s community and friends gathered in-person for CBR Research Day on August 16th, to celebrate the achievements

While blood transfusions in Canada are generally very safe, some reactions can still occur after a transfusion. Chapter 10 in Canadian Blood Services’ Clinical Guide to Transfusion provides health-care professionals with important information about recognizing, managing, and preventing these reactions. A practical guide In October, an all-new version of Chapter 10 was published on Canadian Blood Services’ professional education website (profedu.ca). "We are truly excited to launch an update to our practical guide for transfusion reactions to labile blood components, which complements the