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The latest news, publications and events from Canadian Blood Services’ Medical Affairs and Innovation research and education network.
Collected from March 2020

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We welcome your feedback and encourage you to let us know what you would like to see in upcoming editions. Please share your comments and questions with us at centreforinnovation@blood.ca  

Upcoming events

Cross-Cutting Priorities Webinar Series: Policy, Commercialization and Knowledge Transfer 
April 6, 2020 | Webinar 

LearnTransfusion Series: Topic Teaching: Blood Product Support for VLBW infants 
April 7, 2020 | Webinar 

Green Shirt Day organ donation awareness campaign | April 7, 2020  

LearnTransfusion Series: Topic Teaching: MSM Policy at CBS
April 14, 2020 | Webinar 

National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week | April 19-25, 2020 

LearnTransfusion Series: Topic Teaching 
April 28, 2020 | Webinar 

Postponed: 

International Liver Congress (Vienna, Austria) until August 2020 

Transplant Trot (Dartmouth, N.S.) until further notice 

9th Annual Norman Bethune Symposium (Vancouver, B.C.) until further notice 


Cancelled:

Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine (CSTM) 2020 Conference scheduled to take place in May 2020 in Montreal, Que., has been cancelled. 

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Funding opportunities from
Canadian Blood Services 

 
Postponed until further notice. 
 
Intramural Research Grant Program
Supporting collaborative research projects that will generate knowledge and lead to new discoveries to improve the safety of blood products and the blood system in general.
Registration: Closed
Application deadline: extended until April 30, 2020

Funding recipients 


Congratulations to all recently announced funding recipients!
 
BloodTechNet Award Program
  • Warren Fingrut (University of British Columbia)
  • Eric Wagner (CHU de Québec-Université Laval-CHUL)
  • Anna Ampaw (Ben lab, Ottawa, ON)
  • Leah McMunn (Ben lab, Ottawa, ON)
  • Melika Loriamini (Branch lab, Canadian Blood Services, Toronto, ON)
  • Wayne Zhao (Devine lab, Canadian Blood Services, Vancouver, BC)
 To learn more about these funded research projects, visit our funded research projects page.
 

New resources:

For important updates and information about COVID-19 from Canadian Blood Services, visit blood.ca/covid19.

New on our Professional Education site:

Kudos

  • Congratulations to Dr. Samara Zavalkoff and co-authors, whose article "Potential organ donor identification and system accountability: expert guidance from a Canadian consensus conference" was one of the top 10 cited papers in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia in 2019.
     
  • Congratulations to Roya Pasha and co-authors, whose article "Overcoming the deceptively low viability of CD45+ cells in thawed cord blood unit segments" was short-listed for the Vox Sanguinis Best Paper Prize 2019.

In the news

Posts from the RED blog

"Only we can help": Breaking down barriers for a child with a rare condition 

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

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

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New publications

Each month we feature recent publications from the Canadian Blood Services’ research and education network. At the heart of this network are our staff scientists and medical experts, whose expertise range from microbiology to immunology, coagulation to cryopreservation, hematopathology to anesthesiology and much more. Learn more about our research team

Just the facts: Organ donation in the emergency department: When you can't save one, save eight. Hancock J, Huang S, Zavalkoff S. Can J Emerg Med. 2020 (Mar); 22(2): 155-58. Doi:10.1017/cem.2019.456

Decoding the metabolic landscape of pathophysiological stress-induced cell death in anucleate red blood cells. Nemkov T, Qadri SM, Sheffield WP, D'Alessandro A. Blood Transfus. 2020 Feb 28:1-16. doi: 10.2450/2020.0256-19. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32203008 Free Article

Educating the next frontier of transfusionists: a transfusion camp pilot program for nurse practitioners. Shih AW, Morrison D, Sekhon AS, Lin Y, Chargé S, Chipperfield K, Beaveridge J. Transfusion. 2020 Mar 20. doi: 10.1111/trf.15755. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32196684

Inhibition of ice recrystallization during cryopreservation of cord blood grafts improves platelet engraftment. Jahan S, Adam MK, Manesia JK, Doxtator E, Ben RN, Pineault N. Transfusion. 2020 Mar 18. doi: 10.1111/trf.15759. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32187691

Stability of 40 cytokines/chemokines in chronically ill patients under different storage conditions. Binnington B, Sakac D, Yi Q, Tong TN, Parmar N, Duong TT, Yeung RSM, Pendergrast J, Branch DR. Cytokine. 2020 Mar 14;130:155057. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2020.155057. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32182456

Red-blood-cell manufacturing methods and storage solutions differentially induce pulmonary cell activation. Wirtz MR, Almizraq RJ, Weber NC, Norris PJ, Pandey S, Spinella PC, Muszynski JA, P Acker J, Juffermans NP. Vox Sang. 2020 Mar 12. doi: 10.1111/vox.12911. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32166810

Optimizing the supply of whole blood-derived bioproducts through the combined implementation of cryopreservation and pathogen reduction technologies and practices: An overview. Bohonek M, Kutac D, Acker JP, Seghatchian J. Transfus Apher Sci. 2020 Feb 28:102754. doi: 10.1016/j.transci.2020.102754. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PMID: 32165117

A case series of inactivated Japanese encephalitis virus vaccination associated with positive West Nile virus blood donor screening nucleic acid tests. Drews SJ, Makowski K, Wood H, Dimitrova K, Yan MTS, Young D, Skeate R, Ng M, Hawes G, Fearon M, Bigham M. Transfusion. 2020 Mar 10. doi: 10.1111/trf.15744. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32154927

Coagulation factor VIIa binds to herpes simplex virus 1-encoded glycoprotein C forming a factor X-enhanced tenase complex oriented on membranes. Lin BH, Sutherland MR, Rosell FI, Morrissey JH, Pryzdial ELG. J Thromb Haemost. 2020 Mar 7. doi: 10.1111/jth.14790. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32145149

Corrigendum to "Comparison of mammalian and bacterial expression library screening to detect recombinant alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor variants with enhanced thrombin inhibitory capacity" [J. Biotechnol. 208 (2015) 54-62]. Gierczak RF, Bhakta V, Xie M, Sheffield WP. J Biotechnol. 2020 Mar 10;311:59. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2020.02.013. Epub 2020 Mar 2. No abstract available. PMID: 32139085

Platelet factor 4 inhibits ADAMTS13 activity and regulates the multimeric distribution of von Willebrand factor. Nazy I, Elliott TD, Arnold DM. Br J Haematol. 2020 Mar 4. doi: 10.1111/bjh.16553. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32130721

Safety and efficacy of self-administered romiplostim in patients with immune thrombocytopenia: Results of an integrated database of five clinical trials. Kuter DJ, Arnold DM, Rodeghiero F, Janssens A, Selleslag D, Bird R, Newland A, Mayer J, Wang K, Olie R. Am J Hematol. 2020 Mar 4. doi: 10.1002/ajh.25776. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 32129511

FcγRI and FcγRIII on splenic macrophages mediate phagocytosis of anti-glycoprotein IIb/IIIa autoantibody-opsonized platelets in immune thrombocytopenia. Norris PAA, Segel GB, Burack WR, Sachs UJ, Lissenberg-Thunnissen SN, Vidarsson G, Bayat B, Cserti-Gazdewich CM, Callum J, Lin Y, Branch D, Kapur R, Semple JW, Lazarus AH. Haematologica. 2020 Feb 27. pii: haematol.2020.248385. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2020.248385. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 32107327 Free Article

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