Our Research Publications
Updated August 2025
| Title | Authors | Year Sort ascending | Journal | Link to Article | Intended Audience | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advancing in vivo assessment of red blood cell transfusions: A call for radiation-free methods in transfusion medicine | Yazdanbakhsh M, Acker JP | 2024 | Transfus Apher Sci | View Advancing in vivo assessment of red blood cell transfusions: A call for radiation-free methods in transfusion medicine | Researchers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Improving safety and conserving resources by reducing unnecessary transfusions | Canadian Blood Services' Innovation & Portfolio Management | 2024 | Blood.ca website | View Improving safety and conserving resources by reducing unnecessary transfusions | General public | Other |
| Use of Intravenous Albumin: A Guideline From the International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines | Callum J, Skubas NJ, Bathla A, Keshavarz H, Clark EG, Rochwerg B, Fergusson D, Arbous S, Bauer SR, China L, Fung M, Jug R, Neill M, Paine C, Pavenski K, Shah PS, Robinson S, Shan H, Szczepiorkowski ZM, Thevenot T, Wu B, Stanworth S, Shehata N | 2024 | Chest | View Use of Intravenous Albumin: A Guideline From the International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines | Health care providers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Reply to Kaestner et al.: Pioneering quantitative platforms for stored red blood cell assessment open the door for precision transfusion medicine | Isiksacan Z, D’Alessandro A, McKenna DH, Tessier SN, Kucukal E, Gokaltun AA, William N, Sandlin RD, Bischof J, Mohandas N, Busch MP, Elbuken C, Gurkan UA, Toner M, Acker JP, Yarmush ML, Usta OB | 2024 | PNAS | View Reply to Kaestner et al.: Pioneering quantitative platforms for stored red blood cell assessment open the door for precision transfusion medicine | Researchers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Modélisation mathématique : comparaison des risques de transmission du VIH en fonction de différentes politiques d’admissibilité au don de sang des HARSAH | Canadian Blood Services' Innovation & Portfolio Management | 2024 | Blood.ca website | View Modélisation mathématique : comparaison des risques de transmission du VIH en fonction de différentes politiques d’admissibilité au don de sang des HARSAH | General public | MSM research |
| Implementing pathogen reduction technology while discontinuing blood donor deferral criteria for sexual risk behaviors: A simulation study | Domingue MP, O'Brien SF, Grégoire Y, Lanteri MC, Stramer SL, Camirand Lemyre F, Lewin A | 2024 | Transfusion | View Implementing pathogen reduction technology while discontinuing blood donor deferral criteria for sexual risk behaviors: A simulation study | Blood operators | Epidemiology research |
| Exposure of cryopreserved red cell concentrates to real-world transient warming events has a negligible impact on quality | Kurach J, Brandon-Coatham M, Olafson C, Turner TR, Phan C, Yazdanbakhsh M, Osmani R, Ehsani-Moghaddam B, Clarke G, Acker JP | 2024 | Transfusion | View Exposure of cryopreserved red cell concentrates to real-world transient warming events has a negligible impact on quality | Blood operators | New or improved product or process |
| Viral coagulation: pushing the envelope | Pryzdial ELG, Perrier JR, Rashid MU, West HE, Sutherland MR | 2024 | J Thromb Haemost | View Viral coagulation: pushing the envelope | Researchers | Basic research |
| A perspective on exogenous redox regulation mediated by transfused RBCs subject to the storage lesion | William N, Acker JP | 2024 | Transfus Apher Sci | View A perspective on exogenous redox regulation mediated by transfused RBCs subject to the storage lesion | Researchers | Basic research |
| Sebum Components Dampen the Efficacy of Skin Disinfectants against Cutibacterium acnes Biofilms | Kumaran D, Ramirez-Arcos S | 2024 | Microorganisms | View Sebum Components Dampen the Efficacy of Skin Disinfectants against Cutibacterium acnes Biofilms | Researchers | Basic research |
| The selection and preparation of red cell components for intrauterine transfusion: A national survey | Bodnar M, Lieberman L, Arsenault V, Berardi P, Duncan J, Lane D, Lavoie M, McCarthy J, Morrison D, Robitaille N, Shehata N, Wilson A, Clarke G, Obstetrical tC, Pediatric Transfusion Network | 2024 | Vox Sang | View The selection and preparation of red cell components for intrauterine transfusion: A national survey | Researchers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Alberta’s research priorities to advance organ donation and transplantation: an ecosystem-based and consensus-driven approach to strategic research planning | Davoodi S, Gongal P, Delaney S, Acker J, Boulet D, Boulet T, Dijke E, Elliot J, Halloran K, Halpin A, Hartell D, Kemp L, Kramer A, Lam N, Mager D, Mokoena T, Pepper A, Powell L, Tandon P, Wilson M, Wilkins R, Woolfsmith J, West L | 2024 | Can Heal Pol | View Alberta’s research priorities to advance organ donation and transplantation: an ecosystem-based and consensus-driven approach to strategic research planning | Researchers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Thrombotic triad in microgravity | Elahi MM, Witt AN, Pryzdial ELG, McBeth PB | 2024 | Thromb Res | View Thrombotic triad in microgravity | Researchers | Basic research |
| Decreasing parvovirus B19 and hepatitis A nucleic acid test positivity rates in Canadian plasma donors following the initiation of COVID-19 restriction in March 2020 | Drews SJ, Charlton C, O'Brien SF, Burugu S, Denomme GA | 2024 | Vox Sang | View Decreasing parvovirus B19 and hepatitis A nucleic acid test positivity rates in Canadian plasma donors following the initiation of COVID-19 restriction in March 2020 | Researchers | Epidemiology research |
| Mythbusters: Use of Intravenous Albumin: A Guideline from the International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines (ICTMG) | Callum J, Clark E, Rochwerg B, Daly J, Raza S, Vlaar A, Wolfe A | 2024 | Professionaleducation.blood.ca | View Mythbusters: Use of Intravenous Albumin: A Guideline from the International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines (ICTMG) | Health care providers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Réserves en produits plaquettaires, indications et commande | Canadian Blood Services' Innovation & Portfolio Management | 2024 | Professionaleducation.blood.ca | View Réserves en produits plaquettaires, indications et commande | Health care providers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| You’re invited to take our new Virtual Tour! | Wolfe A | 2024 | Research.Education.Discovery (R.E.D.) Blog | View You’re invited to take our new Virtual Tour! | General public | Other |
| Anemia in Hospitalized Patients: Vampirism and Other Tales | Siegal D | 2024 | Blood.ca website | View Anemia in Hospitalized Patients: Vampirism and Other Tales | Health care providers | Clinical research |
| Homing and Engraftment of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Following Transplantation: A Pre-Clinical Perspective | Hasan T, Pasala AR, Hassan D, Hanotaux J, Allan DS, Maganti HB | 2024 | Curr Oncol | View Homing and Engraftment of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Following Transplantation: A Pre-Clinical Perspective | Researchers | Clinical research |
| Safety, Acceptance, Fairness & Equality (SAFE project): Acceptable risk and donor selection | Canadian Blood Services' Innovation & Portfolio Management | 2024 | Blood.ca website | View Safety, Acceptance, Fairness & Equality (SAFE project): Acceptable risk and donor selection | General public | MSM research |
| Remembering Dr. Dana Devine | Centre for Blood Research | 2024 | Centre for Blood Research Blog | View Remembering Dr. Dana Devine | General public | Other |
| Comparative genome analyses of Staphylococcus aureus from platelet concentrates reveal rearrangements involving loss of type VII secretion genes | Ighem Chi S, Flint A, Weedmark K, Pagotto F, Ramirez-Arcos S | 2024 | Access Microbiol | View Comparative genome analyses of Staphylococcus aureus from platelet concentrates reveal rearrangements involving loss of type VII secretion genes | Researchers | Basic research |
| Cross-Canada Variability in Blood Donor SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence by Social Determinants of Health | O’Brien SF, Caffrey N, Yi Q-L, Bolotin S, Janjua NZ, Binka M, Thanh CQ, Stein DR, Lang A, Colquhoun A, Pambrun C, Reedman CN, Drews SJ | 2023 | Microbiol Spectr | View Cross-Canada Variability in Blood Donor SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence by Social Determinants of Health | Researchers | Clinical research |
| Evaluating variation in perioperative red blood cell transfusion for patients undergoing elective gastrointestinal cancer surgery | Zuckerman J, Coburn N, Callum J, Mahar AL, Lin Y, Turgeon AF, McLeod R, Pearsall E, Martel G, Hallet J | 2023 | Surgery | View Evaluating variation in perioperative red blood cell transfusion for patients undergoing elective gastrointestinal cancer surgery | Researchers | Clinical research |
| Innovation & Portfolio Management Annual Impact Report 2022 – 2023 | Canadian Blood Services' Innovation & Portfolio Management | 2023 | Blood.ca website | View Innovation & Portfolio Management Annual Impact Report 2022 – 2023 | General public | Other |
| Granulocyte transfusion therapy | Gardner E, Fernandes M, Latour C, Seftel M, Acker J, Clarke G | 2023 | Clinical Guide to Transfusion | View Granulocyte transfusion therapy | Health care providers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Leveraging Donor Populations to Study the Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Transfusion-Transmitted and Emerging Infectious Diseases | Bloch EM, Busch MP, Corash LM, Dodd R, Hailu B, Kleinman S, O'Brien S, Petersen L, Stramer SL, Katz L | 2023 | Transfus Med Rev | View Leveraging Donor Populations to Study the Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Transfusion-Transmitted and Emerging Infectious Diseases | Researchers | New or improved product or process |
| International Forum on Blood Donation in Individuals with Current, Past or Germline Predisposition to Malignancy: Summary | Baggio D, Fox LC, Wood EM, Aditya RN, Goldman M, van den Berg K, Kayser S, Wuchter P, Namba N, Tsuno NH, Makino S, Lee CK, Akhtar N, Shah F, Miflin G, Prati D, La Raja M, La Rocca U, Richard P, Tiberghien P, Harley RJ, Raouf MY, Sharma R, Kaur S, Bruijns S, Prakke-Weekamp H, Dunbar N | 2023 | Vox Sang | View International Forum on Blood Donation in Individuals with Current, Past or Germline Predisposition to Malignancy: Summary | Blood operators | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Assessment of the soluble proteins HMGB1, CD40L and CD62P during various platelet preparation processes and the storage of platelet concentrates: The BEST collaborative study | Cognasse F, Hamzeh Cognasse H, Eyraud MA, Prier A, Arthaud CA, Tiberghien P, Begue S, de Korte D, Gouwerok E, Greinacher A, Aurich K, Noorman F, Dumont L, Kelly K, Cloutier M, Bazin R, Cardigan R, Huish S, Smethurst P, Devine D, Schubert P, Johnson L, Marks DC, Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative | 2023 | Transfusion | View Assessment of the soluble proteins HMGB1, CD40L and CD62P during various platelet preparation processes and the storage of platelet concentrates: The BEST collaborative study | Researchers | Basic research |
| Chapter 2. Blood components | Gupta A, Bigham M | 2023 | Clinical Guide to Transfusion | View Chapter 2. Blood components | Health care providers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| The transfusion-associated dyspnea prospective observation and laboratory assessment study: a protocol for investigating and disambiguating cardiopulmonary and high-grade febrile transfusion reactions in adults | McVey M, Saeed S, Siddiqui R, Armali C, Kron A, Branch D, Brinc D, Zhang L, Shehata N, Pavenski K, Gupta A, Lin Y, Lieberman L, Pendergrast J, Callum J, Cserti-Gazdewich C | 2023 | Int J Clin Trials | View The transfusion-associated dyspnea prospective observation and laboratory assessment study: a protocol for investigating and disambiguating cardiopulmonary and high-grade febrile transfusion reactions in adults | Health care providers | Clinical research |
| Sommaire des réactions transfusionnelles indésirables 2018-2023 | Yan M | 2023 | Blood.ca website | View Sommaire des réactions transfusionnelles indésirables 2018-2023 | Blood operators | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Hämolytische Erkrankung des Neugeborenen (Morbus haemolyticus neonatorum; MHN) durch Rhesus (Rh)-Antikörper und andere Nicht-ABO-Antikörper | International Collaboration for Transfusion Medicine Guidelines | 2023 | ICTMG.org | View Hämolytische Erkrankung des Neugeborenen (Morbus haemolyticus neonatorum; MHN) durch Rhesus (Rh)-Antikörper und andere Nicht-ABO-Antikörper | General public | Other |
| Using analytical methods and simulation to estimate the magnitude of errors in calculations for recovery in washed red blood cells | Blake JT, Acker JP, Mastronardi C | 2023 | Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies, and Application | View Using analytical methods and simulation to estimate the magnitude of errors in calculations for recovery in washed red blood cells | Researchers | Basic research |
| Risk factors for T-cell lymphopenia in frequent platelet donors: The BEST collaborative study | Kaufman RM, Marks DC, Flamand Y, Acker JP, Brown BL, Olafson C, Marschner S, Pandey S, Papari M, Petraszko T, Serrano K, Ward D, Bazin R, for the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative | 2023 | Transfusion | View Risk factors for T-cell lymphopenia in frequent platelet donors: The BEST collaborative study | Researchers | Clinical research |
| Alternatives to blood donor deferral of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men: Acceptability of screening the sexual risk behavior of all blood donors | Fisher WA, Kohut T, Woo H, Haw J | 2023 | Transfusion | View Alternatives to blood donor deferral of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men: Acceptability of screening the sexual risk behavior of all blood donors | Blood operators | MSM research |
| Prophylaxis use of clotting factor replacement products in people with non-severe haemophilia: A review of the literature | Iorio A, Königs C, Reding MT, Rotellini D, Skinner MW, Mancuso ME, Berntorp E | 2023 | Haemophilia | View Prophylaxis use of clotting factor replacement products in people with non-severe haemophilia: A review of the literature | Health care providers | Clinical research |
| FAQ : plasma traité au solvant-détergent (Octaplasma) | Mack J, Gordon I, Romans R, Webert K, Ning S, Zeller M | 2023 | Blood.ca website | View FAQ : plasma traité au solvant-détergent (Octaplasma) | Health care providers | New or improved product or process |
| Circular of information for the use of human blood components: Plasma Components | Stewart T | 2023 | Blood.ca website | View Circular of information for the use of human blood components: Plasma Components | Health care providers | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| First Report of Successful Laser Warming for Frozen Gonadal Tissues and Oocytes in the Domestic Cat Model | Rowlison T, Nagashima J, Acker J, Ben R, Daly J, Hagedorn, Comizzoli P | 2023 | Biopreserv Biobank | View First Report of Successful Laser Warming for Frozen Gonadal Tissues and Oocytes in the Domestic Cat Model | Researchers | Basic research |
| Emotional Labor of Nurses and Phlebotomists in a New Source Plasma Collection Site During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Holloway K | 2023 | Glob Qual Nurs Res | View Emotional Labor of Nurses and Phlebotomists in a New Source Plasma Collection Site During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Researchers | Ethical, legal & social implications research |
| Perivascular niche cells sense thrombocytopenia and activate hematopoietic stem cells in an IL-1 dependent manner | Luis TC, Barkas N, Carrelha J, Giustacchini A, Mazzi S, Norfo R, Wu B, Aliouat A, Guerrero JA, Rodriguez-Meira A, Bouriez-Jones T, Macaulay IC, Jasztal M, Zhu G, Ni H, Robson MJ, Blakely RD, Mead AJ, Nerlov C, Ghevaert C, Jacobsen SEW | 2023 | Nat Commun | View Perivascular niche cells sense thrombocytopenia and activate hematopoietic stem cells in an IL-1 dependent manner | Researchers | Basic research |
| HLA-haplotype redundancy and rareness in Canadian Blood Services' Stem Cell Registry and Cord Blood Bank: Novel metrics for optimizing utility | Bailey AJM, Blake J, Ganz K, Seftel MD, Allan DS | 2023 | Transfusion | View HLA-haplotype redundancy and rareness in Canadian Blood Services' Stem Cell Registry and Cord Blood Bank: Novel metrics for optimizing utility | Blood operators | Benchmarking and standard setting |
| Climate change and parasitic risk to the blood supply | Drews SJ, Wendel S, Leiby DA, Tonnetti L, Ushiro-Lumb I, O'Brien SF, Lieshout-Krikke RW, Bloch EM, the International Society of Blood Transfusion Working Party Parasite Subgroup | 2023 | Transfusion | View Climate change and parasitic risk to the blood supply | Blood operators | Clinical research |
| FAQ: Information for health professionals ordering granulocyte concentrates | Stepien J, Robert M-H | 2023 | Blood.ca website | View FAQ: Information for health professionals ordering granulocyte concentrates | Health care providers | New or improved product or process |
| Cold-stored platelets for acute bleeding in cardiac surgical patients: a narrative review | Lu J, Karkouti K, Peer M, Englesakis M, Spinella PC, Apelseth TO, Scorer TG, Kahr WHA, McVey M, Rao V, Abrahamyan L, Lieberman L, Mewhort H, Devine DV, Callum J, Bartoszko J | 2023 | Can J Anaesth | View Cold-stored platelets for acute bleeding in cardiac surgical patients: a narrative review | Researchers | Clinical research |
| Mechanism of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Phagocytosis | Loriamini M, Lewis-Bakker M, Binnington B, Kotra L, Branch D | 2023 | J Hematol Clin Res | View Mechanism of Small Molecule Inhibitors of Phagocytosis | Researchers | Basic research |
| Immunological impact of the CD71+ RBCs: A potential immune mediator in transfusion | Li W, Acker JP | 2023 | Transfus Apher Sci | View Immunological impact of the CD71+ RBCs: A potential immune mediator in transfusion | Researchers | Basic research |
| Medication use in Canadian blood donors | Goldman M, Miller O, O'Brien SF | 2023 | Vox Sang | View Medication use in Canadian blood donors | Blood operators | Clinical research |
| Improved access yet inequitable experience: gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men’s views of more inclusive criteria for source plasma donation | Vesnaver E, Butler-Foster T, Goldman M, Gibson E, Palumbo A, Lapierre D, Hill NE, MacDonagh R, Rubini KA, Bridel W, Miguel G, Rosser A, MacPherson P, Randall T, Osbourne-Sorrell W, O’Brien SF, Otis J, Greaves M, Al-Bakri TB, Germain M, Orvis S, Clapperton AT, Reid M, Labrecque M, Devine D, Presseau J | 2023 | BMC Public Health | View Improved access yet inequitable experience: gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men’s views of more inclusive criteria for source plasma donation | Blood operators | MSM research |