UK’s NHS Blood and Transplant Launches £20 Million Research Units

May 17, 2022

The United Kingdom’s NHS Blood and Transplant will invest £20 million in five blood and transplant research units (BTRUs) across blood, organs, plasma and stem cells, the agency announced on Monday. Through the BTRUs, the NHSBT aims to provide new technologies, techniques or insights that will benefit donation, transfusion, and transplantation. The five BTRUs will focus on precision cellular therapeutics, data-driven transfusion practice, organ donation and transplantation, donor health and behavior, and genomics to enhance microbiology screening.