Research.Education.Discovery Blog

The Research.Education.Discovery blog showcases Canadian Blood Services’ work and explains the basic science behind what we do. We invite readers to explore the worlds of transfusion and transplantation science and learn more about how our research leads to improvements in everyday practices and ultimately – and most importantly – better outcomes for patients.

These R.E.D. blog posts are republished from Canadian Blood Services’ main website. See all blogs at blood.ca/RED.

 

April 14, 2025
Alex Williams

Canadian Blood Services senior research scientist, Dr. Jason Acker, has recently been awarded the prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal for his contributions to the fields of science

March 20, 2025
Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh

Mahsa Yazdanbakhsh is a PhD candidate training in the laboratory of Canadian Blood Services’ Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Jason Acker and recipient of Canadian Blood Services’ Graduate Fellowship

March 13, 2025
Abby Wolfe

Dr. Heyu Ni, a Canadian Blood Services senior scientist, has received two awards at the American Heart Association’s 2025 International Stroke Conference for a top-ranked abstract of pre-clinical

March 3, 2025
Andrea Slipek & Mia Golder

The 2025 call for nominations is now closed.

The 2025 Canadian Blood Services Lifetime Achievement Award nomination period is now open! This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made

January 28, 2025
Abby Wolfe

Canadian Blood Services’ national awards program recognizes exceptional contributors to the transfusion and transplantation system. One of the Lifetime Achievement Awards presented as part of the 2024

January 16, 2025
Kaitlyn Chuong

Our partnership with the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is helping to train the next generation of researchers in transfusion science. This blog post

December 13, 2024
Aldis Brennan

This year, the most viewed R.E.D. blog posts of the past year feature some of the incredible researchers and trainees that were part of Canadian Blood Services’ research and education network in 2024

December 10, 2024
Abby Wolfe

New Tour introduces journey of blood donation

Canadian Blood Services’ new Virtual Tour provides an easy to access, highly visual introduction to the journey of a blood donation from donor to

December 4, 2024
Katerina Rosenflanz

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