Vox Sanguinis
About the Journal
Vox Sanguinis reports on important, novel developments in transfusion medicine, publishing original papers, reviews and international fora on all aspects of blood transfusion and tissue transplantation. The journal is published every month.
Aims and Scope
Vox Sanguinis reports on all issues related to transfusion medicine, from donor vein to recipient vein, including cellular therapies. Comments, reviews, original articles, short reports and international fora are published, grouped into eight main sections:
- Donors and Donations
- Blood Component Collection and Production
- Transfusion-transmitted Disease and its Prevention:
- Transfusion Medicine and New Therapies
- Haemovigilance
- Patient Blood Management
- Immunohaematology and Immunogenetics:
- Cellular Therapy
Readership
Specialists interested in the present state of transfusion research and practice. Received by all members of the ISBT as part of their membership.
Editor-in-Chief
Section Editors
Denese Marks
Denese Marks earned her PhD at the University of Technology, Sydney, followed by post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Vienna, the University of Melbourne and the Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, as well as working in the biotechnology industry. Denese is the National Leader for Product Development at Australian Red Cross LifeBlood, where her research focuses on developing new blood products to meet patient needs, improving blood component processing and storage, platelet and red cell cryopreservation, pathogen inactivation and clinical trials of blood products. She is also an adjunct Associate Professor with the University of Sydney School of Medicine. Denese is a Section Editor for Vox Sanguinis, a scientific member of the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative and a member of the Executive Committee for the ISBT Cellular Therapies Working Party.Regional Director Western Pacific (2020-2024)
Leo van de Watering
Leo is a member of the Clinical Transfusion Working Party and he is one of the lecturers of ISBT's I TRY IT programme mentoring young researchers.
Read more about the I TRY IT programme and the Clinial Transfusion Working Party.
Nelson Hirokazu Tsuno
Nelson H Tsuno currently holds the positions of Deputy Director General of the Japanese Red Cross Kanto-Koshinetsu Block Blood Center, Senior Director of the Laboratory of the same blood center, Visiting Associate Professor at Keio University School of Medicine, and Visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo. He has more than 20 years working experience in the transfusion medicine field, in both the university hospital and the blood service. He has chaired the ISBT Platelet Immunobiology WP with Dr Sentot Santoso and Prof. Ulrich J Sachs until 2021, and started activities of the WP in Asia by organizing training courses and workshops. He is also an active member of the ISBT Granulocyte Immunobiology WP and the Global Blood Safety WP. His research interests include platelets & granulocytes immunobiology, blood donors/donation, blood safety and donor testing. Presently, he is a section editor of the Vox Sanguinis.
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