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August 13, 2020 at 6:00 am
Published by Stanford Blood Center
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...
August 13, 2020 at 5:40 am
Published by Stanford Blood Center
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...
August 6, 2020 at 1:39 pm
Published by Krista Thomas | Communications Strategist
As our dedicated blood donors know, when it comes to helping patients, there is no synthetic substitute for blood. However, when it comes to live theater and cinema, there are many different products that have masqueraded as blood over the...
July 14, 2020 at 10:22 am
Published by Krista Thomas | Communications Strategist
For various campaigns, such as Blood in Pop Culture, we may ask our donors to post pictures on social media, tag SBC and use our hashtag. However, navigating how to post on various platforms and how to make that post...
July 10, 2020 at 7:52 am
Published by Suchi Pandey, MD
As COVID-19 cases surge once again throughout the state, SBC is seeing a spike in demand for COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP), which is donated from recovered COVID-19 patients due to the SARS-CoV-2 antibodies it contains. CCP is being transfused into...
June 3, 2020 at 2:40 pm
Published by Krista Thomas | Communications Strategist
¿Primera vez donando sangre? Encuentre más información sobre el proceso de donación y a quién podría ayudar, en nuestra página de donantes por primera vez. Puede traducir cualquier página de nuestro sitio web al español eligiendo del menú desplegable “Select Language”...
May 7, 2020 at 9:24 am
Published by Krista Thomas | Communications Strategist
Note: Sue Belanger sadly passed away on May 18, 2020. Sue B. was beloved by her SBC family and donors and is greatly missed. You can read more about her legacy in her obituary, here, written by her son Geoff....
December 18, 2019 at 9:05 am
Published by Stanford Blood Center
August 29, 2018 at 11:00 am
Published by Kristin Garcia | Digital Marketing Project Manager
This July, Stanford Blood Center was honored to have Dr. Suchitra (Suchi) Pandey join us as our newest Medical Director. Her responsibilities include providing medical support to blood center staff, management of blood donor medical issues, development of Blood Center...
August 22, 2018 at 10:21 am
Published by Stanford Blood Center
Since we launched our SBC Donor Survey back in July of 2017, we have received tremendous feedback and countless kudos for our Stanford Blood Center team members. The results have been inspiring, and your feedback has helped guide us in...