This post was written by Steven Jiang, an MSc Student from the Kim Lab at the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia. Below is an abridged version of the post that originally appeared on the Centre for Blood Research blog in September 2022. Emel Islamzada, whose research is featured in this blog, is supported by a Canadian Blood Services graduate fellowship award. Researchers at the UBC Centre for Blood Research (CBR) have made a significant advancement in how to check the quality of red blood cells for transfusion. They identified a practical and efficient

This post compiles responses from Canadian Blood Services transfusion medicine fellows Dr. Bryan Tordon (University of Toronto) and Dr. Isabelle Blais-Normandin (University of British Columbia), along with research trainees Kiarra Durand, Wenhui Li, Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh, and Olga Mykhailova, and research assistant, Carly Olafson, all from Dr. Jason Acker’s lab (University of Edmonton). Responses have been edited for length and/or clarity. Each year, the Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine (CSTM) partners with Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec to bring together practitioners