Stories from Canadian Blood Services

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Information

How students can save lives while competing for scholarships this summer

With the Assignment Saving Lives Scholarship Program, recruit donors to win up to $6500 toward your 2024-2025 tuition

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Information Inspiration

Five Canadian Blood Services women share their views on International Women’s Day

Recognizing the contributions of women on this day and every other day

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A young boy plays in a field. Jakob Guziak was diagnosed with SCID (adenosine deaminase severe combined immunodeficiency), days after his birth. He urgently needs a stem cell transplant.
Plasma

How we help patients with rare diseases

Rare Disease Day takes place on the last day of February each year

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James McCarroll, a medical laboratory technologist, leans on a piece of equipment at a Canadian Blood Services facility that processes stem cells for autologous stem cell transplants.
Innovation

How stem cell transplants continued through a COVID-19-related shutdown

Dedicated lab specialists kept working for 17 patients who needed lifesaving stem cell transplants

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Akintunde Adeniyi, a Black employee at Canadian Blood Services, stands in front of his bricked house. Akintunde wants to see his organization’s diversity and inclusion work continue in 2021 with the same momentum it did last year.
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‘I hope we keep the momentum going’

Akintunde Adeniyi, information security analyst at Canadian Blood Services, shares his hopes for diversity and inclusion

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Image of Brian Fraser with black glasses wearing an Ottawa Senators jersey and a backwards cap.
Inspiration

Very public cancer journey inspires thousands to donate

Brian Fraser has continued to advocate even after learning his own illness is terminal

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Image of Ed Pryzdial wearing a grey shirt and glasses at the Canadian Blood Services Head Office location
Information Innovation

Exploring the mysteries of ‘a beautiful system’

Dr. Ed Pryzdial’s research on blood clotting can aid understanding of many disorders, including COVID-19

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