Author Archives for Stanford Blood Center

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Reflections From Month Five

August 13, 2020 6:00 am Published by Comments Off on Reflections From Month Five

By Harpreet Sandhu, CEO/Executive Director While it may be hard to believe, we are now in month five of shelter in place. These past months have been anything but easy, but despite this turmoil, it is extremely heartening and inspiring...


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The History of Heart Transplants: Stanford Innovation

August 13, 2020 5:40 am Published by Comments Off on The History of Heart Transplants: Stanford Innovation

By Marcelo Fernández-Viña, PhD, D (ABHI), Medical Director of SBC’s Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Laboratory (HLA Lab) A few months ago for national Donate Life Month, we shared information on our SBC blog (HemoBLOGin) about organ donation and the critical role...


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Supporting Research During a Pandemic

August 13, 2020 5:10 am Published by Comments Off on Supporting Research During a Pandemic

By Marino Bozic, Research Customer Relations Manager When Governor Gavin Newsom issued a shelter-in-place order for California on March 19, the Research Customer Relations department had no playbook for how to handle a research program during a pandemic. The first...


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Reflections of a COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Donor

May 6, 2020 10:30 am Published by Comments Off on Reflections of a COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Donor

By Rick Singer, guest blogger and COVID-19 convalescent plasma donor I know we’re all feeling it. I know we’re all cooped up, messed up and uptight. But I am also painfully aware that, as worn out as we all are...


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Update on COVID-19 and Blood Collection

May 1, 2020 3:44 pm Published by Comments Off on Update on COVID-19 and Blood Collection

By Harpreet Sandhu, Executive Director For the last three months or so, our world here in the Bay Area has been colored completely by COVID-19. We have all had to make adjustments, make sacrifices and work as a team to...


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Obsoleting Cholesterol Testing

May 1, 2020 11:15 am Published by Comments Off on Obsoleting Cholesterol Testing

By Tho D. Pham, MD, Chief Medical Officer For many years SBC has provided donors with a total cholesterol reading as a courtesy part of each blood donation, which has been routinely recorded on the online donor portal (sbcdonor.org). Back...