BBTS 2025: Clinical and Scientific Programme

Evening (TBC)

Bursary Celebration

20:30 - 23:00

Curry and Quiz Night - Matt Hazell and Martin Maley

8:00 - 9:15

Conference Registration

8:30 - 9:10

Early Careers Group Meeting - Jamie Nash

9:15 - 9:30

Conference Opening from BBTS President Prof Dave Roberts

Simultaneous Sessions

9:30 - 11:00

Red Cell SIG Part 1: Red cell membrane in health and disease

Chairs: Christian Jannete Stevens & Vanya Crew

Musings on the Role of VPS13A Expression in Red Cells - Lesley Bruce

Understanding Erythrocyte Invasion Using Zoonotic Malaria Parasites - Robert Moon

Dysfunction in Protein and Lipid Quality Control Mechanisms is a Hallmark of Red Cell Aging - Pascal Amireault

Blood Bank Technology SIG

Chairs: Ben Holmes

RCI Assist - Helen Thom

Anti-HbF for FMH Estimation - Sarah James

Title TBC - Katie Hands

Cellular Therapies SIG

Chair: Kenny Douglas & Gillian McGaffin

Current status of CAR T therapies in myeloma - still an unmet clinical need in the UK? - Dr Jonny Carmichael

Initial experience of Casgevy - Farhan Ali Anjum

"In-house" CAR T therapies - is it the way forward for the NHS, and how can we make it happen - Sarah Albon 

Transfusion Practitioner SIG

Karen Mead & Pedro Valle Vallines

Transfusion Practitioner SIG Award Winner – Wendy McSporran

Exercise Elucid- Improving major incident transfusion response in the absence of a major incident – Sarah Beuschel

A TP led collaborative project from the SW RTC -Karen Mead

11:00 -11:30

Break

Simultaneous Sessions

11:30 - 13:00

Red Cell SIG Part 2: Mechanical properties of red cells

Chairs: Christian Jannete Stevens & Vanya Crew

RBC Mechanical Properties and Microhemodynamics - Stavroula Balabani

Mechanical Properties of Red Cells: Molecular Regulations, Novel Clinical Implications and Diagnostic Tools - Lars Kaestner

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate and density separation: contribution of haemophysics to improving applications - Alexis Darras

Paediatric SIG

Chair: Anne Kelly 

Transfusion Associated Harm in Neonates - Professor Chris Gale

Laboratory aspects of Paediatric and Neonatal Transfusion - Carol Cantwell

Transfusion in Sickle Cell Disease: When a life-saving intervention becomes life threatening - Dr Nick Fordham

Microbiology SIG

Chair: Shannah Secret

Investigations into West Nile Virus False Reactives - Victoria Maddox

Implementation of B19/HAV screening - Kate Tettmar

TBC - Su Brailsford

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Break

Lunchtime symposium sponsored by Haemonetics

Simultaneous Sessions

14:00 - 15:30

Red Cell SIG Part 3: Red cells in fetal medicine

Chairs: Christian Jannete Stevens & Vanya Crew

Prenatal Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease - Alexandros Abdel Massih & Lisa Kaiser

Umbilical Cord derived Red Blood Cells for Transfusing Newborn Infants at Risk - is it The Magic Bullet? - Charles Roehr

HDFN Caused by a Novel Low Prevalence Scianna Antigen- SCIBB - Nicole Thornton

Patient Blood Management and Appropriate Transfusion SIG

Chairs: Fateha Chowdhury & Julie Staves

Use of A pos platelets as emergency stock - Sewa Joacquim-Hearne

Moving to Group A FFP as Emergency Stock - Julie Northcote

Use of O Dneg Red Cells - Dora Foukaneli

Components SIG

Chairs: Mike Wilshire & Christine Saunders

Update on nDEHP - Richard Blanco

Cold Stored Platelets - Chloe George

X-Irradiation of Blood Components - Michelle Ray

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:30

Plenary I: Cyber Attack - the aftermath and the way forward
Chairs: Julie Staves & Fateha Chowdhury 
Speaker 1: Title - TBC - Dr Sue Robinson

Speaker 2: Title - TBC - Dr Mike Prentice
Speaker3:  Practical aspects of provision service during a cyberattack - Vickie McDonald

17:30 - 20:00

Welcome Reception & Exhibition Opening

08.00 - 08:45

5K Run

08:00 - 08:45

Conference Registration

Simultaneous Sessions

09:00 - 10:30

1: Red Cell Matching

Chair: Nicole Thornton

2. Margaret Kenwright Awards

Chair: Jamie Nash

3: Patient Blood Management and Blood Health

Chair: Danny Gaskin

Introduction to PBM - Andrea Marshall

Anaemia management – where do we start? - Stephanie Ditcham

More Than Iron: Addressing the Gender Gap in Blood Health - Clare Cook

A Clinical Case Study: “Good News” Indeed - Julie Gillies

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Plenary II: BBTS Award Lectures

12:30 - 13:00

BBTS Annual General Meeting (AGM), Members Only

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

Simultaneous Sessions

14:00 - 15:30

4. Hospital Lab

Chairs: Julie Staves and Graham Scott

Debate: Should Unqualified Laboratory staff be allowed to issue Blood components and products

Case For: Tim Wreford-Bush

Case Against: Anna Capps-Jenner

5. Clinical Case Studies

Chair: Katie Hands

Speaker: Michelle Melly

Speaker 2: Kalinga Perera

Speaker 3: Laura Knox

Speaker 4: Anne Kelly

6. Donors/Donation

Chairs: Chiara Vendramin & Champa Manchanayake

Neurodiversity and blood donation: implications for the donor journey - Professor Eamonn Ferguson

Testing four interventions to prevent donation-related vasovagal reactions: the Strategies to Improve Donor Experiences (STRIDES) trial - Yaning Wu

Keeping Malaria Out of the Blood Supply: Where We Stand and Where We’re Headed - Dr Laura Nabarro

7. Transfusion Transformation

Chair: Louise Sherliker

Overview of Transfusion Transformation strategic plan - Shubha Allard

What does Transfusion Transformation mean to patients? - Anna Mamwell

How will Transfusion Transformation deliver changes in hospital and regional governance - Dr Ric Proctor

Transfusion Transformation and the Transfusion Laboratory. What can we expect? - Kerry Dowling

How Transfusion Transformation is supporting the role of the Transfusion Practitioner - Stuart Lord

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:45

Networking & Poster Viewing

16:45 - 17:15

Poster Prize Giving

19:00 - Midnight

Conference Dinner

08:00 - 09:30

Conference Registration

Simultaneous Sessions

09:30 - 11:00

8: Serological Case Studies

Chair: Laura Eastwood

What to do, when you don't have a clue? - Rachel Lammin

Anti-CD36 in the Red Cell Immunohaematology Laboratory - Meghan McIntosh

Are you in or are you out? Absorptions and Elution’s in a tertiary reference laboratory. - Ben Jones

9: SHOT

Chair: Caryn Hughes

10: EDI

Chairs: Ian Sullivan & Erhabor Osaro

GIRFT for Hemoglobinpathy patients - Dr Wale Atoyebi

11:00 0 11:30

Break

11:30 - 13:00

Plenary III - Machine Learning and AI in Blood Transfusion
Chairs: Simon Stanworth & Julie Staves

Monitoring, benchmarking and feedback of data: Ryan Metcalf

Machine Learning/AI in Transfusion: Suzanne Maynard

Novel trial designs and embedding research into practice: Akshay Shah

13:00 - 13:15

Closing Remarks, Prof David Roberts

13:15 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45

Close of Exhibition and Departure