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The fourth Biennial Sanquin Spring Seminar will be held on 14 & 15 April 2011, at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Programme and other details will be available in due course at this website. If you want to be kept informed, please bookmark this page, or e- e-mail us with your request.

Sessions will be organised on the following themes:
  • Epidemiology in transfusion science
  • Donor health and safety
  • Triggers and targets
  • Alternatives for transfusion
  • Adverse reactions of transfusions
  • Coagulation disorders


    Below you will find further information on earlier seminars.
    In 2005 Sanquin organised the first of a biennial series of conferences under the title of Sanquin Spring Seminars. Every two years, leading scientist will address important issues in blood transfusion, the latest scientific developments as well as their implications for blood banking, transfusion medicine, and transfusion policy. The third of this series of Sanquin Spring Seminar was held on 16 & 17 April 2009 in, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on the topic of Cellular Therapies.

    Programme and abstracts earlier conferences

    2005: Red Blood Cell Aspects, Defects and Prospects

    SSS Abstracts 2005.pdf

    2007: Antibodies in Disease, Diagnosis and Treatment

    SSS Abstracts 2007.pdf



    Scientific Committee
  • Anneke Brand MD PhD, Conference chair (Sanquin Blood Bank & Leiden University Medical Centre)
  • Anske van der Bom MD PhD, (Sanquin Blood Bank & Leiden University Medical Centre)
  • Ernest Briët MD PhD (Sanquin Research, Leiden University Medical Center & Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam)
  • Bart Biemond MD PhD (Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam)
  • Paul Strengers MD (Sanquin Plasma Products, Amsterdam)


  • Last Modified: 01 September 2010 13:58
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