The new EDQM Blood Conference will be held in Strasbourg on 14 and 15 January 2025. The event, promoted by the European Directorate for Quality of Medicine, will focus on “new developments in blood donation and blood component preparation in Europe“.

The event will consist of a series of plenary meetings and workshops and will allow participants to address issues relevant to all professionals working in the donation, collection, analysis, processing, storage, distribution and transfusion of blood and its components.

The focus of the conference can be divided into two main areas of interest: “blood donation” and “blood components“. As per the blood donation the meeting will focus on:

  • Donor selection: new challenges and risk-based approach
  • Donor recruitment and retention
  • Challenges for blood supply in Europe
  • Blood collection
  • Testing: from phenotype testing to genomics

As per the blood components the meeting will focus on:

  • Innovative and novel blood components / blood component preparations
  • Innovation and involvement of users in development of novel blood components
  • Implementation of process changes, risk-based approach
  • EDQM Blood Guide monographs for innovative and novel blood components
  • Novel component development and clinical outcome monitoring

For registration click on the following link:
EDQM Registration

For other info:
EDQM Blood Conference