by: Deepthi Sampathkumar, volunteer and high school blood drive coordinator Every weekend, I don my grey “Stanford Blood Center Volunteer” shirt and head to the Mountain View donation center to assist in the post-donation canteen. The fresh scent of coffee...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers The American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) has honored two Stanford leaders in the field, Dolly Tyan, PhD, D(ABHI) and Marcelo Fernández-Viña, PhD, D(ABHI), with awards recognizing their significant contributions to the fields of transplantation,...
By Kristin Stankus, digital community and social media specialist Stanford Blood Center (SBC) is proud to once again partner with Palo Alto Adult School who each quarter invites one community organization to showcase their services and recognizes them for excellence...
By Karen Hendryk, SBC Donor Recruitment Manager When summer rolls around, we inevitably see a decline in donations, and this summer is no exception. We miss the high school and college drives while school is out of session, but that...
Our Choose Your Getaway campaign is the perfect antidote to the end-of-summer blues. It’s our second year running this promotion, and we have five additional opportunity drawing prizes to give away this time around! When you make a donation, you...
Whether you’re heading back to school, starting a new job, or it’s just time for a change, who doesn’t love a fresh new look? From Monday, August 3 through Sunday, August 16, all presenting donors at centers and mobiles will...
The Bay Area has incredibly generous high school kids: A whopping 15 percent of Stanford Blood Center’s blood donations come from students—and 90-95 percent are high school students participating in mobile blood drives. When all those caring kids go on...
By Kristin Stankus, digital community and social media specialist Since its founding in 1978, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) has strived to not only save lives by providing transfusable blood products to patients in need, but also to provide tailored blood...
By Kristin Stankus, Digital community and social media specialist Giving is groovy all year long and this summer Stanford Blood Center is highlighting that it’s also patriotic. If you’ve been to one of our centers to donate recently, you may...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers Ebola is a devastating disease, but hope for a treatment may rest within the blood of survivors—along with the prospect of building stronger blood systems for the West African countries overwhelmed by the recent outbreak. When...