By Dayna Kerecman Myers On Veterans Day, November 11, Americans honor veterans by contemplating the significance of the moment, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, when the armistice went into effect in 1918, marking...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers Sanquin Blood Supply, the only organization authorized to manage blood donation in the Netherlands, chose a pelican with a drop of blood on its chest for its logo. The pelican symbolizes the altruism of blood donors,...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers and Jennifer Jeanne Chang While others are out spreading mischief and mayhem on Halloween, Sean Shadmand and the ShareThis Philanthropy Committee decided to organize a center blood drive at our Palo Alto Center. He donned a Red...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers Usually, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) can count on the NASA Ames Research Center to host blood drives five times per year. This year, thanks to the government shutdown that furloughed 1,000 Ames employees, there will only...
Anabel Mariko Stenzel, a passionate advocate for organ and blood donors, passed away in Redwood City last month after a battle with cancer. The Blood Center will remember Anabel, known as Ana, with gratitude for her tremendous contributions, and admiration...
A research team from Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and other institutions discovered a new genetic target that could lead to new therapies to treat sickle cell disease (SCD). SCD, an inherited blood disorder characterized by defective hemoglobin,...
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’d like to thank blood and platelet donors for the important role they play in the lives of cancer patients. Cancer patients often require transfusions, either because of the cancer itself or the...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers Stanford Blood Center is pleased to announce its new Co-Medical Director of Clinical Services, David Oh, MD. Dr. Oh joins Medical Director of Clinical Services Susan Galel, MD and Assistant Medical Director Christopher Gonzalez, MD in...
This week, Stanford celebrates neuroscientist Thomas Südhof, MD, professor of molecular and cellular physiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, for winning the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Südhof shared the prize with James Rothman, PhD, a...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers Leigh Bowser picked up her needles — sewing needles — to raise awareness about the rare blood disorder Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA) and the importance of donating blood. Inspired by a young relative who suffers from DBA, Bowser, a textile crafts graduate...