By Kristin Stankus, Digital Community and Social Media Specialist As the new school year kicks off, Stanford Blood Center (SBC) encourages students and staff on campus to start the year off right by doing something great for the community! On...
As summer comes to a close, we look forward to students returning to school, eager to get back into the spirit of saving lives by hosting blood drives at their high school or college campus. But first, we have one...
By Julie Peachey Four Seasons Club Are you on track to earn your Four Seasons T-shirt this year? It’s simple. All donors who give blood at least four times in a calendar year will have the option to order a...
More than a blood bank, Stanford Blood Center hosts sophisticated research labs on the frontlines of fighting the most serious diseases affecting us today. Here, we provide an overview of the research being conducted in our labs. Viral Immunology Lab...
By Deanna Bolio There’s a lot of talk about high school and college mobile drives here at Stanford Blood Center, and for good reason, but community blood drives are also a vital part of blood collections. Some community drives are...
By Julie Peachey We are pleased to welcome our new technology leader, Jacqueline Shen, who comes to us from Tyco International after 17 years as the IT director for their global organization. She joined Stanford Blood Center in December and...
By Dayna Kerecman Myers Stanford Blood Center (SBC) is honored to welcome Dr. Elizabeth Trachtenberg on board as a new Professor of Pathology and Co-Director of SBC’s Histocompatibility, Immunogenetics, and Disease Profiling Laboratory. Ensuring a successful bone marrow or organ...
Steven Adelsheim, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, spoke at our Café Scientifique series this past Thursday, November 21. This past Thursday at Café Scientifique, Dr. Adelsheim, a child/adolescent and adult psychiatrist, shared...
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...
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,...