May 2018 No Images? Click here Welcome to the May edition of TransfusEd. If you're in Toronto for the 35th International Congress of ISBT, make sure you stop by booth 1821. We'll be there to launch our new app that helps support your bedside transfusion practice, iTransfuse. Plus, don't forget to register for our inaugural Blood Genomics Symposium, to be held at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, on Friday 29 June. As well as a keynote address from Professor Willem Ouwehand, from Cambridge University in the UK, other topics will include genomics and precision medicine, genomics in the clinic, and future transfusion genomics. In November last year we asked for feedback about transfusion education in the laboratory workforce. We had a great response to our online survey and are looking forward to further supporting your training and education needs in our future developments. Read more about the survey results here. You can also keep up to date with all our activities on our Twitter. Thanks for reading, Topic to be released 1 June 2018: Giving a transfusion Producing blood for transfusion using pluripotent stem cellsHear about the news in “artificial blood”, where two research groups have transformed adult cells into stem cells that can regenerate both themselves and all the cellular components of blood. Date: 13 June 2018 Blood Genomics SymposiumThis full-day event features a range of presentations by local experts and a keynote address by Professor Willem Ouwehand from Cambridge University in the UK. Date: 29 June 2018 International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) |