Our Research Publications

Updated August 2025

Title Authors Year Journal Link to Article Intended Audience Purpose
Platelet Disorders Crowther M, Zawilska K, M?ynarski W, Arnold D 2020 McMaster Textbook of Internal Medicine Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Updated Understanding of Platelets in Thrombosis and Hemostasis: The Roles of Integrin PSI Domains and their Potential as Therapeutic Targets MacKeigan DT, Ni T, Shen C, Stratton TW, Ma W, Zhu G, Bhoria P, Ni H 2020 Cardiovasc Hematol Disord Drug Targets View Researchers Basic research
ResearchUnit: Reducing bleeding after cardiac surgery: fibrinogen concentrate vs cryoprecipitate Karkouti K 2020 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Clinical research
The use of IVIg in fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia— Principles and mechanisms Wabnitz H, Khan R, Lazarus AH 2020 Transfus Apher Sci View Researchers Clinical research
Blood donation and the global COVID-19 pandemic: areas for social science research Haw J, Holloway K, Masser B, Merz E-M, Thrope R 2020 Vox Sang View Researchers New or improved product or process
Comparison of short-term mortality between mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 and influenza in a setting of sustainable healthcare system Lee J, Lee YH, Chang H-H, Choi SH, Seo H, Yoo SS, Lee SY, Cha SI, Park JY, Kim CH 2020 J Infect View Health care providers Clinical research
High-dose IVIG plus cangrelor platelet "anesthesia" during urgent heparin-CPB in a patient with recent SRA-negative HIT-thrombosis with persisting platelet-activating antibodies Koster A, Nazy I, Birschmann IE, Smith JW, Sheppard JI, Warkentin TE 2020 Res Pract Thromb Haemost View Health care providers Clinical research
Mouse Models of Rheumatoid Arthritis for Studies on Immunopathogenesis and Preclinical Testing of Fc Receptor-Targeting Biologics Lewis BJB, Branch DR 2020 Pharmacology View Researchers Basic research
Concentré de recherche: Améliorer les analyses de qualité réalisées sur les cellules souches destinées à la greffe Pineault N 2020 Blood.ca website View Researchers New or improved product or process
Transfusion of Uncrossmatched Group O Erythrocyte-containing Products Does Not Interfere with Most ABO Typings Yazer MH, Spinella PC, Doyle L, Kaufman RM, Dunn R, Hess JR, Filho LA, Fontaine M, Gathof B, Jackson B, Murphy MF, Pasion J, Raval JS, Rosinski K, Seheult J, Shih AW, Sperry J, Staves J, Tuott EE, Ziman A, Triulzi DJ, Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative 2020 Anesthesiology View Researchers Clinical research
Biological Modulation of the Treg:Teff Ratio: From Immunosuppression to Immunoactivation Yang X, Scott M 2020 Immunosupression View Researchers Basic research
Combination of two complementary automated rapid assays for diagnosis of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) Warkentin TE, Sheppard JI, Smith JW, Li N, Moore JC, Arnold DM, Nazy I 2020 J Thromb Haemost View Health care providers Clinical research
Differential red blood cell age fractionation and Band?3 phosphorylation distinguish two different subtypes of warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia Bloch EM, Branch HA, Sakac D, Leger RM, Branch DR 2020 Transfusion View Researchers Basic research
Guide des pratiques exemplaires pour la gestion des réserves de sang Clarke G, Romans R 2020 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Management of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: systematic reviews and meta-analyses Morgan RL, Ashoorion V, Cuker A, Begum H, Ross S, Martinez N, Chong BH, Linkins LA, Warkentin TE, Wiercioch W, Nieuwlaat R, Schünemann H, Santesso N 2020 Blood Adv View Researchers Clinical research
A stressful predicament for blood bankers! Branch DR 2020 Transfus Med View Blood operators Basic research
Centre for Innovation Annual Progress Report 2019-2020 Levy I, Pambrun C 2020 Blood.ca website Other Other
COVID-19 Case-Age Distribution: Correction for Differential Testing by Age Fisman D, Greer A, Hillmer M, O'Brien S, Drews SJ, Tuite A 2020 medRxiv View Researchers Clinical research
Influenza Vaccine Does Not Increase the Risk of Coronavirus or Other Noninfluenza Respiratory Viruses: Retrospective Analysis From Canada, 2010–2011 to 2016–2017 Skowronski DM, Zou M, Clarke Q, Chambers C, Dickinson JA, Sabaiduc S, Olsha R, Gubbay JB, Drews SJ, Charest H, Winter A-L, Jassem A, Murti M, Krajden M, De Serres G 2020 Clin Infect Dis View Health care providers Clinical research
Perioperative oral eltrombopag versus intravenous immunoglobulin in patients with immune thrombocytopenia: a non-inferiority, multicentre, randomised trial Arnold DM, Heddle NM, Cook RJ, Hsia C, Blostein M, Jamula E, Sholzberg M, Lin Y, Kassis J, Larratt L, Tinmouth A, Amini S, Schipperus M, Lim W, Vishnu P, Warner M, Carruthers J, Li N, Lane S, Kelton JG 2020 Lancet Haematol View Health care providers Clinical research
Transitioning to Full Field Digital Mammography in Nova Scotia: Using Interrupted Time Series Methods to Study the Impact of Technology Change on Mammography Volumes Brydon M, Kephart G, Payne JI, Blake J 2020 J Med Imaging Radiat Sci View Researchers New or improved product or process
Deformability based sorting of stored red blood cells reveals donor-dependent aging curves Islamzada E, Matthews K, Guo Q, Santoso AT, Duffy SP, Scott MD, Ma H 2020 Lab Chip View Researchers Basic research
The impact of age and sex on first-time donor return behavior Masser BM, Wright S, Germain M, Grégoire Y, Goldman M, O'Brien SF, Kamel H, Bravo M, Merz EM, van den Hurk K, Prinsze F, Takanashi M, Wilder Z, Shaz B, Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative 2020 Transfusion View Researchers Clinical research
Vers une nouvelle politique de don de sang? Un projet d’Héma-Québec auprès des hommes gais sexuellement actifs fait l’objet d’une étude. Caza P 2020 Actualités UQAM View Other Other
A Canadian perspective on the use and preparation of cryopreserved red cell concentrates Turner TR, Acker JP 2020 Transfus Apher Sci View Researchers New or improved product or process
Control of data variations in intravital microscopy thrombosis models Lei X, MacKeigan DT, Ni H 2020 J Thromb Haemost View Researchers Basic research
Emotional labour and cord blood collection: frontline perspectives Haw J, Polzer J, Devine Dana V 2020 J Health Organ Manag View Blood operators New or improved product or process
Research Unit: Protecting patients with sickle cell disease from alloimmunization risk: benefits of genotyping Shih AW 2020 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Clinical research
Circulare d'information utilisation de composants sanguins humains: Cellules progénitrices hématopoïétiques de sang de cordon ombilical Jenkins C 2020 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Antiviral anticoagulation Pryzdial ELG, Sutherland MR, Lin BH, Horwitz M 2020 Res Pract Thromb Haemost View Researchers Basic research
Dépistage et prise en charge de la thrombopénie fœtale et néonatale allo-immune Meunier D, Clarke G 2020 Blood.ca website Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Jumelage de patients atteints d’anémie falciforme selon le phénotype et période de conservation du sang : examen et recommandations aux fins transfusionnelles Morin P-A, Skeate R, Clarke G 2020 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
A simple protein-based surrogate neutralization assay for SARS-CoV-2 Abe KT, Li Z, Samson R, Samavarchi-Tehrani P, Valcourt EJ, Wood H, Budylowski P, Dupuis Ii AP, Girardin RC, Rathod B, Wang J, Barrios-Rodiles M, Colwill K, McGeer A, Mubareka S, Gommerman JL, Durocher Y, Ostrowski M, McDonough KA, Drebot MA, Drews SJ, Rini JM, Gingras AC 2020 JCI Insight View Researchers New or improved product or process
Vox Sanguinis International Forum on Donor Incentives Zeller MP, Ellingham D, Devine D, Lozano M, Lewis P, Zhiburt E, van der Linde L, Goldman M, Nakamura A, Inoue S, Takikawa M, Nakajima K, Turek P, Rehacek V, Sakashita AM, Kutner JM, Karim FA, Hindawi S, Jayasekara SBA, Merz E-M, Gross S, Woimant G, Djoudi R, Byabazaire KD, Irving DO, Abdrakhmanova S, Khalykova A, Yilmaz S, Oruc NE, Huaynalaya IP, Ramirez LAS, Chuhriiev A 2020 Vox Sang View Blood operators Benchmarking and standard setting
ResearchUnit: One in a million: Modelling rare blood flow Blake J, Clarke G 2019 Blood.ca website View Researchers Clinical research
Reducing red blood cell folate testing: a case study in utilisation management Ismail O, Chin-Yee I, Gob A, Bhayana V, Rutledge A 2019 BMJ Open Quality View Researchers Basic research
Children under 10 years of age were more affected by the 2018/19 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 epidemic in Canada: ?possible cohort effect following the 2009 influenza pandemic Skowronski DM, Leir S, De Serres G, Murti M, Dickinson JA, Winter A-L, Olsha R, Croxen MA, Drews SJ, Charest H, Martineau C, Sabaiduc S, Bastien N, Li Y, Petric M, Jassem A, Krajden M, Gubbay JB 2019 Euro Surveill View Health care providers Clinical research
An enzymatic pathway in the human gut microbiome that converts A to universal O type blood Rahfeld P, Sim L, Moon H, Constantinescu I, Morgan-Lang C, Hallam SJ, Kizhakkedathu JN, Withers SG 2019 Nat Microbiol View Researchers Basic research
Population pharmacokinetics of two recombinant human coagulation factor preparations in patients with hemophilia A Hua BL, Chelle P, Yeung C, Gu J, Zhao YQ, Iorio A 2019 Zhonghua Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi View Researchers Clinical research
Système Kell : l’anticorps anti-Jsa Meunier D, Peng S, Clarke G 2019 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Benchmarking and standard setting
Test-retest properties of the Patient Reported Outcomes, Burdens and Experiences (PROBE) questionnaire and its constituent domains Chai-Adisaksopha C, Skinner MW, Curtis R, Frick N, Nichol MB, Noone D, O'Mahony B, Page D, Stonebraker J, Thabane L, Crowther MA, Iorio A 2019 Haemophilia View Researchers Clinical research
Acellular pertussis vaccine effectiveness and waning immunity in Alberta, Canada: 2010–2015, a Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) study Bell CA, Russell ML, Drews SJ, Simmonds KA, Svenson LW, Schwartz KL, Kwong JC, Mahmud SM, Crowcroft NS 2019 Vaccine View Health care providers Clinical research
High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin for the treatment and prevention of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: a review Warkentin TE 2019 Expert Rev Hematol View Health care providers Clinical research
Modulating Intracellular Ice Growth with Cell-Permeating Small-Molecule Ice Recrystallization Inhibitors Poisson JS, Acker JP, Briard JG, Meyer JE, Ben RN 2019 Langmuir View Researchers Basic research
ResearchUnit: Sex-mismatched red blood cell transfusions and mortality Zeller M 2019 Blood.ca website View Health care providers Clinical research
Using pharmacokinetics for tailoring prophylaxis in people with hemophilia switching between clotting factor products: A scoping review Yu JK, Iorio A, Edginton AN, Wapps co?investigators 2019 Res Pract Thromb Haemost View Researchers Clinical research
Addressing the identity crisis in healthcare: positive patient identification technology reduces wrong patient events Callum J, Etchells E, Shojania K 2019 Transfusion View Health care providers Clinical research
Patient Blood Management: Recommendations From the 2018 Frankfurt Consensus Conference Mueller MM, Van Remoortel H, Meybohm P, Aranko K, Aubron C, Burger R, Carson JL, Cichutek K, De Buck E, Devine D, Fergusson D, Folléa G, French C, Frey KP, Gammon R, Levy JH, Murphy MF, Ozier Y, Pavenski K, So-Osman C, Tiberghien P, Volmink J, Waters JH, Wood EM, Seifried E, ICC PBM Frankfurt Group 2019 JAMA View Researchers Clinical research
Impact of Adopting Population Pharmacokinetics for Tailoring Prophylaxis in Haemophilia A Patients: A Historically Controlled Observational Study Stemberger M, Kallenbach F, Schmit E, McEneny-King A, Germini F, Yeung CHT, Edginton AN, von Mackensen S, Kurnik K, Iorio A 2019 Thromb Haemost View Health care providers Clinical research
Concentré de recherche: Combattre l'inflammation par l'inflammation Lazarus A 2019 Blood.ca website View Researchers Clinical research