NBF Workshop at AABB Annual Meeting
NBF 15th Annual Golf Tournament & Challenge Cup
NBF 13th Annual Run for Research
NBF Grants Luncheon & Lecture
NBF Awards Given Out at the Annual Meeting
NBF Young Investigator Scholarships
View NBF Event Photos from the 2011 AABB Annual Meeting.
NBF events at the Annual Meeting raised more than $103,000 to help support the NBF mission to fund research to benefit patients and donors. Thank you to all who participated and supported these events!
Thank you to our Premier Supporters ($25,000 +):
CaridianBCT
Novartis Diagnostics
NBF Workshop at AABB Annual Meeting
With the support of Novartis Diagnostics, the National Blood Foundation held an hour-long workshop, How to Get that NBF Grant, at the AABB Annual Meeting in San Diego. "Novartis is proud to support the National Blood Foundation and the next generation of scientists in transfusion medicine. Whether we are providing grants to early-career scientists or supporting activities like the NBF Grant Writing Workshop, we hope to cultivate our industry's future leaders as they follow the science and make new discoveries that will help patients and donors," said Novartis Diagnostics President Carsten Schroeder.
Incoming Grants Review Committee and previous NBF grant recipient Chair James Zimring, MD, PhD, led the session where attendees heard about the NBF grant application process and the common mistakes that people make while applying as well as the factors the review committee considers when evaluating the proposals.
NBF 15th Annual Golf Tournament & Challenge Cup
This year the NBF golf tournament was held on Friday, Oct 21 at the Steele Canyon Golf Course with a shotgun start at 10:30 am.
View the 2011 Golf Tournament Results and visit the Blog.
View NBF Event Photos from the 2011 AABB Annual Meeting.
Thanks to our supporters for this event:
American Red Cross
Immucor
Mediware Information Systems
Blood Centers of The Pacific
Blood Centers of America
NBF 13th Annual Run for Research
This year the NBF Run for Research was held by the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina.
View the 2011 Run Results and visit the Blog.
Thanks to our supporters for this event:
Roche Diagnostics
Mediware Information Systems
Other generous supporters of the NBF at the annual meeting are:
HemoCue
Puget Sound Blood Center
NBF Grants Luncheon & Lecture
This year the annual NBF Grants Luncheon & Lecture honored three outstanding NBF grant recipients. Seating is reserved for the first 100 who register for this event on the AABB annual meeting registration form.
Kent W. Christopherson II, PhD, Associate Professor at Rush University Medical Center Sections of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant & Cellular Therapy, a 2006 NBF grantee, gave an update on his NBF-funded research entitled CD26 Inhibition As A Method Of Improving Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Efficiency.
Nicolas Pineault, PhD from the Scientifique Recherche et Développement Department at Héma-Québec, Montreal, Canada, a 2009 grantee, spoke about his NBF-funded research on a cellular-based therapy to prevent or reduce thrombocytopenia.
Cheryl Lobo, PhD, Associate Member and Head of the Department of Blood-Borne Parasites at the Lindsley Kimball Research Institute of the New York Blood Center spoke as this year's recipient of the Pall Prize (see details below) for her recently completed research entitled Erythrocytic Invasion of Babesia divergens.
The NBF acknowledges the generous support of New York Blood Center and Gen-Probe for the NBF Grants Luncheon & Lecture.
The David B. Pall Prize for Innovative Research in Transfusion Medicine for 2011 was awarded at the Grants Luncheon.
About the David B. Pall Prize: This prize is awarded to innovative and creative research that may ultimately lead to improving transfusion medicine outcomes. This winner of this prize of $10,000 is chosen from the Final Reports submitted by NBF grantees and is generously supported by a contribution from the Pall Corporation. The recipient gives a lecture at the NBF Grants Luncheon and Lecture at the AABB annual meeting. This year's recipient is:
Cheryl Lobo, PhD
Citation: For her completed National Blood Foundation-funded research entitled Erythrocytic Invasion of Babesia divergens.
Cheryl Lobo, PhD is Associate Member and Head of the Department of Blood-Borne Parasites at the Lindsley Kimball Research Institute of the New York Blood Center. Her lab studies the interaction of Babesia with its host cell, the human red blood cell with the specific goal of dissecting out the red cell receptor-parasite ligand interactions and using this information to design therapeutics and screens for detecting this pathogen in blood donors. She has had a long history working on Plasmodium and by combining her laboratory's extensive experience in malaria together with the red cell expertise and reagents available at the New York Blood Center she has identified and characterized Babesia molecules that play a key role in invasion. This she hopes to translate into tools for diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment and prevention of human babesiosis, as well as assist in developing novel methods to screen blood products.
Other NBF Awards Given Out at the Annual Meeting
Dale A. Smith Memorial Award
The Dale A. Smith Memorial Award, established in 2002 and endowed by Fenwal Inc., recognizes an individual or institution that focuses on innovation and creativity in the application of technology for improving transfusion medicine. Selection of the winner (s) is by the NBF Grants Review Committee, with approval by the NBF Board of Trustees and final approval by the AABB Board of Directors.
Jeffrey Linnen, PhD
The 2011 Dale A. Smith Memorial Award has been awarded to Jeffrey Linnen, PhD for his significant contribution to the development of the Target-Capture Transcription Medicated Amplification (TC-TMA) assays for HIV, HCV, HBV and WNV nucleic acids that are now employed to screen donors in the US and globally to prevent transfusion of blood from donors in the infectious window periods missed by serological screening. Dr Linnen was the seminal force behind development of these tests as well as having been critical to their licensure, implementation in donor screening and assessment of the impact of NAT testing on blood safety. Dr. Linnen is currently the Director of Product Development at Gen-Probe.
Young Investigator Scholarships
For the second year, generous supporters have provided funding to enable young researchers starting out in their careers to attend the AABB Annual Meeting in San Diego. These scholarships cover all expenses to attend the Annual Meeting, including hotel, airfare, meals, full registration and a one year AABB membership. We wish to thank both Novartis Diagnostics for funding two researchers to attend the Annual Meeting in San Diego and Gen-Probe for funding one researcher.
The young researchers were:
Stella T. Chou, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ajay Perumbeti, MD
Transfusion Medicine Fellow
Hoxworth Blood Center, University of Cincinnati
Scott T. Avecilla, MD, PhD
Transfusion Medicine Fellow
New York Blood Center
If your organization is interested in funding young researchers to attend AABB Annual Meetings, please contact the NBF at NBF@aabb.org. If you are interested in nominating a young researcher for this scholarship for the AABB Annual Meeting in 2012, please contact the NBF. Nominees are selected by the NBF Grants Review Committee.