I TRY IT

Marion Vermeulen

ISBT Regional Director Africa, Individual Member Representative at the ISBT TTID WP, Executive, Transfusion Medicine and Technical Services, South African National Blood Service (SANBS)

ISBT Regional Director Africa (2024-2028)

Marion Vermeulen is the Executive: Transfusion Medicine and Technical Services at the South African National Blood service (SANBS). She has worked for most of her 35 years in Transfusion Transmissible Infections. Her current role consists of the development of the SANBS strategy with direct responsibility for the donation screening, processing, crossmatching, issuing, transportation and logistics of 1 million donations per annum. She obtained her PhD from Stellenbosch University in advancements of transfusion safety with regards to Transfusion Transmissible Infections (TTI). She is an active member of the international society for blood transfusion (ISBT) TTID working party and is the chairperson of the I TRY IT program that provides mentorship to young early career researchers through the ISBT.   

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Brian Custer

TTID Working Party Chair, Director, Vitalant Research Institute, Senior Vice President Research and Affiliate Professor, Laboratory Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA

Lilian Castilho

Professor, University of Campinas in Brazil

Former ISBT Regional Director Southern Americas (2018-2022)

Lilian Castilho obtained her Master and PhD degrees at Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil and performed post-doctoral studies in molecular immunohematology at the New York Blood Center, USA. She has worked in laboratories in Brazil and served as consultant for the American Red Cross in Philadelphia, USA. Lilian has experience in the area of immunology, with emphasis on immunohematology and genetics of blood groups. Currently she is a Professor at University of Campinas in Brazil, where she teaches and has an active research laboratory that supports both projects being carried out by graduate and post graduate students and collaborative research projects. She has served on numerous committees and has been the vice-chair of the ISBT working party on Red Cell Immunogenetics and Blood Group terminology.

Karin van den Berg

Medical Director, South African National Blood Service, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Leo van de Watering

Senior scientist, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

Leo is a member of the Clinical Transfusion Working Party and he is one of the lecturers of ISBT's I TRY IT programme mentoring young researchers.

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Arwa Al Riyami

Clinical Transfusion Working Party Chair, Senior Consultant Hematopathologist, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman

Senior Consultant Hematopathologist at Department of Hematology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital.

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