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10/12/2026

The countdown to is on! Atlanta is less than a week away.

Getting ready for the Annual Meeting? Take a look at some of the events, activities and experiences on the agenda for Oct. 17-19: https://bit.ly/4zpC2SW

10/11/2026

It starts with hello. ✨

10/09/2026

Be in the room. ✨

10/08/2026

This is what the road to a 100% voluntary blood supply looks like. 🩸

Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman donated blood this week to launch the country's 2026 national blood donation campaign.

Last year's campaign quadrupled the number of donors to more than 65,000, the highest total in the history of Saudi Arabia’s blood banks. Voluntary donations reached 100% among participants.

More than 63,000 patients benefited from donated blood, while another 10,000 benefited from platelets and 10,000 from plasma.

📸: Saudi Press Agency وكالة الأنباء السعودية

10/07/2026

Prehospital transfusion is expanding in the Empire State.

Last month, paramedics in Rochester became the first in New York to offer prehospital blood transfusion in ground ambulances.

It’s part of a fast-growing national trend: more than 400 ground EMS agencies across the country now carry blood on board, up from just a handful a decade ago.

Together, they perform more than 22,000 prehospital transfusions a year.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3TE299C

CHS Mobile Integrated Healthcare and University of Rochester Medicine have partnered to offer emergency blood transfusion services on ground ambulances for patients experiencing hemorrhagic shock. Across the U.S., ...

10/05/2026

Behind advances in biotherapies is decades of expertise in transfusion medicine. 🩸

A new Transfusion supplement, “Evolving Biotherapies: Stakeholders, Solutions, and the Science of Tomorrow,” brings together 12 peer-reviewed articles from across the blood and biotherapies community to explore the field’s evolution and what may come next.

The issue examines the intersection of transfusion medicine and biotherapies, advances in science and innovation, and the importance of education, accreditation, quality and safety.

Free to read for two years, thanks to sponsorship from Vitalant.

Explore the supplement: https://bit.ly/4hu9rEw

10/03/2026

Your people are waiting. ✨

09/30/2026

Early in his career, Shaughn Nalezinski faced a challenge: finding opportunities to grow when those opportunities weren't always available within his own organization.

The AABB Annual Meeting became one way to find them.

Over the years, conversations with colleagues at the meeting have exposed Shaughn to different practices, approaches to solving problems and ideas he could bring back to his work.

One example came through networking at AABB, when he learned about using DTT-treated cells with gel testing and brought that testing approach into his work.

For Shaughn, that's what makes the AABB Annual Meeting so valuable: the education, the exchange of ideas and the relationships that continue beyond the meeting.

09/29/2026

🚨 Deadline Thursday 🚨

Students, trainees and early-career professionals can apply for the AABB Foundation’s 2026 AABB Annual Meeting travel awards.

The awards provide $250 to AABB members in the U.S. and Canada and $500 to members outside North America to help cover the cost of attending .

Recipients can attend educational sessions, build their professional networks and connect with colleagues in transfusion medicine and biotherapies.

Apply by Thursday: https://bit.ly/4AzuXkh

09/27/2026

The moments you come back for.