… to attend the ISBT congress ?   The ISBT congress is a highlight for me every year, I always look forward to … Infectious Diseases Working Party  (TTID WP; I am a co-chair of the TTID WP Bacteria Subgroup), and along with … opening session with Nobel Prize awardee Dr. Harvey Alter’s talk. It was really humbling to hear him talk about his …

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… Transfusion Blood Tricia Abe The importance of having a blood supply from ethnically diverse donors—one that can … they receive. Some of these antigens are implicated in a potentially life-threatening process that begins when the patient’s immune system doesn’t recognize a donor’s red blood cell …

… at Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto and is a member of the University of Toronto QUEST program, a … Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at Queen’s University. She also serves as the lead for the QUEST … program, and Philippe Bégin at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal) launched the largest clinical trial …

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