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The latest news, publications and events from Canadian Blood Services’ Medical Affairs and Innovation research and education network.
Collected from April 2019      
 

The April 2019 Research & Education Round Up connects you to upcoming events, recent publications, new professional resources and more. As always, 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

10th Congress of the International Pediatric Transplant Association 
When: May 4, 2019 | Where: Vancouver 
 

LABCON Annual Conference
When: May 24, 2019 | Where: Fredericton 

Canadian Society of Transfusion Medicine (CSTM) 2019 Conference 
When: May 30 – June 2, 2019 | Where: Calgary 
Registration now open  | Come visit our booth!

CBMTG 2019 Annual Conference 
When: June 5 – 8. 2019 | Where: Calgary 


Call for Abstracts: Critical Care Canada Forum
When: November 2019 | Where: Toronto
Abstracts due: June 3, 2019


2019 Canadian Transplant Summit
When: October 16-19, 2019. Where: Banff, AB

View all events

Funding opportunities

Canadian Blood Services Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Salary support for young investigators.
Deadline: July 15, 2019 

Blood Efficiency Accelerator Award Program 
Supporting innovative research to improve the efficient and appropriate utilization of blood products. 
Deadline: July 15, 2019 


Funding recipients


Congratulations to all recently announced funding recipients!

Blood Efficiency Accelerator Program funding recipients: 
  • Douglas Down (McMaster University) 
  • Michelle Zeller (Canadian Blood Services/McMaster University) 
  • Mira Liebman (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario) 
  • Philip Berardi (Canadian Blood Services) 
BloodTechNet Award funding recipient: 
  • Paula Van Vliet (Saskatchewan Society of Medical Laboratory Technologists)  
Graduate Fellowship funding recipients 
  • Emel Islamzada (Ma lab, Vancouver, BC) 
  • Frank Lee (Pryzdial lab, Vancouver, BC) 
  • Haisle Moon (Kizhakkedathu lab, Vancouver, BC) 
  • Julia Meyer (Ben lab, Ottawa, ON) 
  • Peter Norris (Lazarus lab, Toronto, ON) 
  • Ramsha Khan (Lazarus lab, Toronto, ON) 
  • Richa Kaushal (Pineault lab, Ottawa, ON) 
James Kreppner Award funding recipient: 
  • Timothy Caulfield (University of Alberta) 
Kenneth Fyke Award funding recipient: 
  • Ian Ball (Western University)
Learn more about these funded research projects.

New resources

 New articles on the Canadian Blood Services professional development site

Videos from the 2018 Canadian Critical Care Forum – Deceased Donation Scientific Symposium

Recorded in partnership with Trillium Gift of Life Network and the Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program in November 2018. Watch the videos now. 

Kudos

Congratulations to Canadian Blood Services Scientist Dr. Heyu Ni who won the University of Toronto Division of Hematology Keating Award for his paper entitled "GPIbα is required for platelet-mediated hepatic thrombopoietin generation". This paper was selected as the #1 paper of the year for the Hematology Academic Day held on April 9, 2019. 

Posts from the RED blog

Competition winner: Optimizing cord blood donor recruitment 

 

Expert guidance seeks to improve identification of potential organ donors

Winning science research writers announced

 

Stories worth sharing: Blood clotting factor or clot buster? 

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New publications

 

Reducing ethnic disparity in access to high-quality HLA-matched cord blood units for transplantation: analysis of the Canadian Blood Services' Cord Blood Bank inventoryAllan D, Kiernan J, Gragert L, Dibdin N, Bartlett D, Campbell T, Mostert K, Halpenny M, Ganz K, Maiers M, Petraszko T, Elmoazzen H. Transfusion. 2019 Apr 19. doi: 10.1111/trf.15313. PMID: 31002398  

International Forum on Occult hepatitis B infection and transfusion safety. Seed CR, Allain JP, Lozano M, Laperche S, Gallian P, Gross S, Kwon SY, Oh EY, Kim JN, Chua SS, Lam S, Ang AL, Tsoi WC, Hewitt PE, Davison KL, Tettmar K, O'Flaherty N, Boland F, Williams P, Pomeroy L, Wendel S, FachiniR, Scuracchio P, Carminato P, Fearon M, O'Brien SF, Delage G, Kiely P, Hoad V, Matsubayashi K, Satake M, Taira R, Stramer SL, Sauleda S, Bes M, Piron M, El Ekiaby M, Vermeulen M, Levičnik Stezinar S, Nograšek P, Jarvis LM, Petrik J, Charlewood R, Flanagan P, Grabarczyk P, Kopacz A, Łętowska M, Seifried E, Schmidt M. Vox Sang. 2019 Apr 10. doi: 10.1111/vox.12743. PMID: 30972757  

Postnatal intervention for the treatment of FNAIT: a systematic review. Baker JM, Shehata N, Bussel J, Murphy MF, Greinacher A, Bakchoul T, Massey E, Lieberman L, Landry D, Tanael S, Arnold DM, Baidya S, Bertrand G, Kjaer M, Kaplan C, Kjeldsen-Kragh J, Oepkes D, Savoia H, Ryan G, Hume H; International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines (ICTMG). J Perinatol. 2019 Apr 10. doi: 10.1038/s41372-019-0360-7. PMID: 30971767 

Transfusion Camp: a prospective evaluation of a transfusion education program for multispecialty postgraduate trainees. Lin Y, Tilokee E, Chargé S, Alam A, Cserti-Gazdewich CLau W, Lee C, Lieberman L, Nixon P, Owens W, Pavenski K, Pendergrast J, Saidenberg E, Shehata NSkeate R, Yi QL, Conrad D, Dudebout J, Hsia CC, Murphy M, Prokopchuk-Gauk O, Shah A, Solh Z, Trudeau J, Zeller MP, Callum J. Transfusion. 2019 Apr 4. doi: 10.1111/trf.15284. PMID: 30946497    

The association between platelet transfusions and mortality in patients with critical illness. Ning S, Liu Y, Barty R, Cook R, Rochwerg B, Iorio A, Warkentin TE, Heddle NM, Arnold DM. Transfusion. 2019 Apr 1. doi: 10.1111/trf.15277. PMID: 30934133

A GYPB variant encoding an altered leader peptide leads to a weak S phenotype. Cote J, Cen S, Fennell K, Pambrun CBranch DR, Ochoa-Garay G. Transfusion. 2019 Mar 30. doi: 10.1111/trf.15295. PMID: 30927367  

Can furosemide prevent transfusion-associated circulatory overload? Results of a pilot, double-blind, randomized controlled trial. Pendergrast J, Armali C, Cserti-Gazdewich C, Hansen M, Kiss A, Lieberman L, Parmar N, Scales D, Skeate R, Callum J, Lin Y. Transfusion. 2019 Mar 28. doi: 10.1111/trf.15270.  PMID: 30924166  

Trends in IVIG use at a tertiary care Canadian center and impact of provincial use mitigation strategies: 10-year retrospective study with interrupted time series analysis. Murphy MSQ, Tinmouth A, Goldman M, Chassé M, Colas JA, Saidenberg E, Shehata N, Fergusson D, Forster AJ, Wilson K. Transfusion. 2019 Mar 27. doi: 10.1111/trf.15271. PMID: 30916409  

Glycoprotein V is a relevant immune target in patients with immune thrombocytopenia. Vollenberg R, Jouni R, Norris PAA, Burg-Roderfeld M, Cooper N, Rummel MJ, Bein G, Marini I, Bayat B, Burack R, Lazarus AH, Bakchoul T, Sachs UJ. Haematologica. 2019 Mar 28. pii: haematol.2018.211086. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2018.211086. PMID: 30923095  

Bacterial Safety of Blood Components – A Congress Review of the ISBT Transfusion Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party- Bacterial SubgroupRamirez-Arcos S, McDonald C, Deol P, Kreuger AL, Patel N, Pidcoke H, Prax M, Seltsam A, Stassinopoulos A, The ISBT Transfusion‐Transmitted Infectious Diseases Working Party Subgroup on Bacteria. ISBT Science Series, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/voxs.12483 

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