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Developing Research Skills

Topics: Strategic Management, How to

This session was held on the ISBT Academy Day, Sunday June 18 2023.

The Developing Research Skills session included the following presentations:
1. Ellen van der Schoot: How to critically review scientific data
2. Matteo Bruschettini: How to write a systematic review
3. Christian Erikstrup: Big data - What is it? How can I get it? What can I do with it?

MODERATORS: Torsten Eich and Miquel Lozano

Neonatal and Paediatric Transfusions

Topics:  Clinical Transfusion, Paediatric Transfusion

This session was held on the ISBT Academy Day, Sunday June 18 2023. 

The Neonatal and paediatric transfusions session included the following presentations:

1. Satyam Arora: Use of whole blood in paediatric patients
2. Helen New: Optimising blood components for neonates and children
3. Amanda Ullman: Neonatal & paediatric sampling and anaemia

MODERATORS: Ruchika Goel and Maha Badawi 

Challenges in Managing a Blood Service

Topic: Strategic management

This session was held on the ISBT Academy Day on Sunday June 18 2023.

The Challenges in managing a blood service session included the following presentations:
1. Gwen Clarke: Strategies for managing staff shortages
2. May Raouf: Strategies to maintain safe blood during emergency & disaster
3. So-Yong Kwon: Managing in times of uncertainty

MODERATORS: Lena Lyxe, CK Lee

TTID Impact and Surveillance

Topic: TTID, Strategic management

This session was held on the ISBT Academy Day on Sunday June 18 2023.

The TTID impact and surveillance session included the following presentations:
1. Mike Busch: Strategies to Managing Emerging Transfusion Transmissible Infectious Diseases
2. Jose Eduardo (Dudi) Levi: Introduction of new assays for emerging infectious agents
3. Sheila O'Brien: Blood Donor Surveillance, Risk Assessment and Policy

MODERATORS: Sofia Nyström, Helen Faddy

Donor & Donation Challenges

Topic: Donors and donation

This session was held on the Academy Day, Sunday June 18 2023.

The Donor & Donation Challenges session included the following presentations:
1. Johanna Castrén: What do haemoglobin measurements tell us about blood donors
2. Mindy Goldman: Moving to risk based sexual behaviour criteria for all donors
3. Katja van den Hurk: Update on iron supplementation for whole blood donors

MODERATORS: Ulrik Sprogoe, So-Yong Kwon

Drug-related Antibodies in Immunohematology

Topic: Immunohaematology

This session was held on the Academy Day, Sunday June 18 2023.

The Drug-related antibodies in immunohematology session included the following presentations:
1. Shane Grimsley: Anti-CD38 and anti-CD47; considerations in immunohaematology testing
2. Sue Johnson: Immunohaematological considerations regarding drug-induced antibodies

MODERATORS: Norbert Lubenow, Jan Hamilton

Alternative Approaches to Blood Use and Blood Banking

Topic: Blood Products/Components

This session was held on the ISBT Academy Day, June 18 2023.

The Alternative approaches to blood use and blood banking session included the following presentations:
1. Agneta Wikman: Blood product revival - the old is new again
2. Norbert Ahrens: Update on the collection and use of granulocyte transfusions
3. Torunn Apelseth: Walking blood banks in the civilian population

MODERATORS: Arwa Al-Riyami and Jesper Bengtsson

Quality Control Assessment - Principles and Practice

Topic: Quality Management

This session was held on the ISBT Academy Day, Sunday June 18 2023.

The Quality control assessment - principles and practice session included the following presentations:

1. Richard Haggas: Quality assurance and assessment in serology testing
2. Rebecca Cardigan: QA in blood processing
3. Karen Moniz: Role of ICCBBA in blood banking

MODERATORS: Mohammad Abedi, Katy Veale

Climate Change, Pandemics, Disasters: The New Normal?

Topic: Strategic management, Blood Supply Management

This session was held on Monday, June 19 2023.

The Climate Change, Pandemics, Disasters: The New Normal? Plenary session included the following presentations:
1. Heidi Doughty: Disaster Planning in Blood Banking
2. Christian Erikstrup: Emergence of Infectious Diseases due to Climate Change

MODERATORS: Torsten Eich and Michael Busch
 

 

Change management - evidence based decisions

Topic: Strategic management 

This session was held on Monday, June 19 2023.

The Change management - evidence based decisions session included the following presentations:
1. Barbee Whitaker: Modeling the Effect of an Individual-Risk Based Deferral Policy for Sexual Behaviors on Blood Donations in the US
2. Rachel Thorpe: Understanding preferences for advancing inclusion of trans and gender diverse people in blood donation in Australia 
3. Stephen Thomas: Safety profile of plasma for fractionation donated in the United Kingdom, with respect to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
4. Antoine Lewin: Risk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease for the Canadian Blood Supply
5. Veronica Hoad: Is Dual Testing for hepatitis C necessary? Risk Modelling and Cost Effectiveness of removing hepatitis C antibody testing for Australian blood donors
6. Jennie Haw: Advancing inclusivity and equity for trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit and other gender-diverse donors

MODERATORS: Eric Jansen and Marja-Kaisa Auvinen

Cell Therapy by Design

Topic: Cellular Therapy

This session was held on Monday June 19 2023.

The Cell Therapy by Design session included the following presentations:
1. Olga Zimmermannova: Reprogramming of dendritic cells for cancer immunotherapy
2. Katharina Schallmoser: A Protein Corona Around Human Platelet-Derived Extracellular Vesicles Promotes Regenerative Functions
3. Abdullah Khan: Bone Marrow Organoids

MODERATORS: Sofia Frändberg and Mickey Koh

Recent technological advances in Immunohematology

Topic: Immunohaematology

This session was held on Monday, June 19 2023.

The Recent technological advances in Immunohematology session included the following presentations:
1. Tim Steiert: Blood group haplotypes and third generation sequencing
2. Mercy Rophina: Characterization of the genomic landscape of blood group antigens and alleles in the Indian population utilizing whole genome sequencing data 
3. Sonja Sigurdardottir: Molecular RHD donor screening in Switzerland: discovery of novel alleles by nanopore-sequencing
4. Masja De Haas: Implementation of a ddPCR method for non-invasive fetal blood group typing for alloimmunised pregnant women

MODERATORS: Christoph Gassner and Asa Hellberg

Platelets.... but not as we know them

Topic: Platelet Immunobiology

This session was held on Monday, June 19 2023.

The Platelets.... but not as we know them session included the following presentations:
1. Denese Marks: What is new with platelets?
2. Johanna Kirschall: Inhibition of cold-induced apoptosis of platelet concentrates better maintains platelet functionality and survival
3. Lucia Merolle: Membrane Molecular Changes Associated with Platelet Cryopreservation
4. Kristina Ehn: Cryopreserved platelets in a novel non-toxic DMSO-free setting maintain hemostatic function in vitro

MODERATORS: Sandra Pettersson and Stephen Thomas

Diving deep into blood groups

Topic: Red Cell Immunogenetics and Blood Group Terminology

This session was held on Tuesday, June 20 2023.

The Diving deep into blood groups session included the following presentations:
1. Vanja Karamatic Crew: The new Er blood group system: Piezo and its role in RBC physiology
2. Gloria Wu: Elucidating the Blood Group Regulome
3. Camous Moslemi: A deep learning approach to the genetic prediction of blood group antigens
4. Gian-Andri Thun: Intriguing outcomes from Nanopore sequencing of two cryptic A3 samples: a case of blood group mosaicism and a novel regulatory variant in the ABO system

MODERATORS: Catherine Hyland and Frederik Banch Clausen

Lab Grown Blood: Future or Fantasy?

Topic: Blood Products/Components

This session was held on Tuesday, June 20 2023.

The Lab Grown Blood: Future or Fantasy? session included the following presentations:
1. Ashley Toye: RESTORE trial a clinical assessment of laboratory grown red blood cells produced from stem cells
2. Koji Eto: Ex vivo platelet production system
3. Marieke von Lindern: Large scale production of cultured red blood cells for transfusion purposes

MODERATORS: Erica Wood, Jason Acker

Finding Rare - well done!

Topic: Rare donors

This session was held on Tuesday, June 20 2023.

The Finding Rare - well done! session included the following presentations:
1. Gwen Clarke: Managing Rare Blood: A sustained challenge around the globe!
2. Tanya Powley: Rare Blood Donor Programs: ISBT working party survey
3. Margaret A. Keller: The American Rare Donor Program’s Support of Patients with Sickle Cell Disease

MODERATORS: Vered Yahalom, Linda Bodecker Zingmark 
 

Joint ISBT / EHA Session: CAR-T therapeutics and stem cells

Topic: Cellular Therapies

This session was held on Wednesday, June 21 2023.

The Joint ISBT / EHA session–CAR-T cell therapeutics and stem cells session included the following presentations:
1. Christian Chabannon: Update on CAR-T therapeutics
2. Nina Worel: New Pespectives on the Role of Blood Services in CAR-T
3. Angeles Fernandez Rodriguez: Pressure ulcer treatment with autologous bone-marrow mononuclear stem cells. EudraCT 2008-003015-12 results
4. Naoko Watanabe-Okochi: Criteria of storage for cord blood units at Japanese Red Cross Kanto-Koshinetsu Cord Blood Bank

MODERATORS: Erica Wood, Allison Waters
 

A Social Scientist's Perspective: Current and Emerging Challenges in Transfusion Medicine

Topic: Donors and donation, Strategic management

This session was held on Wednesday, June 21 2023.

The A social Scientists Perspective: Current and Emerging Challenges in Transfusion Medicine session included the following presentations:
1. Eva-Maria Merz: A Sociologist's Perspective: Current and Emerging Challenges in Transfusion Medicine
2. Eamonn Ferguson: The power of science, art and co-design for enhancing donor recruitment and retention

MODERATORS: Pierre Tiberghien, Lin Fung
 

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