Red Cell Immunogenetics and Blood Group Terminology

Catherine Hyland

RCIBGT Working Party Co-Chair, Principal Research Fellow, Australian Red Cross LifeBlood, Queensland, Australia

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Christoph Gassner

RCIBGT Working Party Co-Chair, Professor, Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein

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Margaret A. Keller

RCIBGT Working Party Chair, Executive of National Laboratories, American Red Cross, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Dr. Keller is the Executive of National Laboratories at the American Red Cross, overseeing the National Molecular Laboratory, National Reference Laboratory for Specialized Testing, and the National Neutrophil. She is senior director of the American Rare Donor Program (ARDP). Margaret received her PhD in molecular genetics from the University of Pennsylvania. She is ARDP liaison to the Molecular Testing Standards Unit of the AABB and the secretary of the ISBT Working Party on Red Cell Immunogenetics and Blood Group Terminology and a member of the ISBT Working Party on Rare Donors. She is adjunct Associate Professor at Thomas Jefferson University, is editor-in-chief of the journal Immunohematology and is on the board of South Central Association of Blood Banks.

Jill Storry

ISBT Secretary General, Chair of the Vox SC, Professor, Division of Haematology & Transfusion Medicine, Lund University (LU), Sweden

Secretary General (2026-2030)

Jill Storry is an adjunct Professor at the Division of Haematology & Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lund University (LU), Sweden, and also responsible for the Immunohematology laboratories within the Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Lund. She trained as Medical Laboratory Technologist in Bristol, England and has worked for the American Red Cross National Immunohematology Reference Laboratory and the New York Blood Center Immunohematology Reference Laboratory before moving to Sweden to pursue her post-doctoral career. Primary areas of interest are the study of human blood group systems, both from a clinical perspective in the provision of providing blood to alloimmunised patients and from the perspective of human polymorphism, and its role in health and disease. She is currently the Immunohematology Section Editor for Vox Sanguinis. She has served ISBT as a past chair and member of the Working Party on Red Cell Immunogenetics and Blood Group Terminology as well as a member of the Working Party on Rare Donors.