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17th SoGAT Meeting

May 2

 

Speaker

Affiliation

Presentation

Adrian Bristow, NIBSC National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Clare Davis,NIBSC Evaluation of Candidate Standard XX (97/650)
 Matthias Gessner,
Plasma Control/Plasma Analytics Baxter, Austria
Parvovirus B19: Assays, Limits and the Outcome
 Piotr Grabarczyk,
Institute of Haematology Blood Transfusion, Warsaw
Current status of NAT in Poland
 Lutz Pichl,
German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Centre West, Hagen
Magnetic bead technology in viral RNA/DNA extraction from plasma minipools
 Giulio Pisani,
Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
 Italian EQA study for HCV RNA, HIV RNA and HBV DNA
 W. Kurt Roth,
Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Baden-Württemberg
B19 Overview of Testing for Blood Banks
 Morag Ferguson, NIBSC  CE MARKING OF IVDDs - the NIBSC perspective
Sally Baylis, NIBSC Testing for Parvovirus B19 - Broadening the Assay to Cover Variants
Perrine Caillet-Fauque,
Université Libre de Bruxelles
B19 production in hepatocarcinoma cells and neutralization
H.-P. Grunert The Impact of International Standard Materials on Correct Test Results: Experiences from EQASs for HIV, HCV, HBV and BSE
Indira Hewlett,
CBER/FDA
An Overall View of Standardization
Harvey Holmes, NIBSC SoGAT and the Development of Standards
Vivienne James, UKNEQAS Surveillance and Screening of Blood Borne Pathogens
Frank Krieg-Schneider
Strategic Alliances, QIAGEN
Standardization of Sample Preparation for NAT

Mei-ying W Yu,
CBER/FDA

B19 Testing of Plasma for Fractionation: Current Thinking
 Mark Manak,
Boston Biomedica, Inc.
 Controls for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) DNA testing
Bruce H. Phelps
Chiron Corporation
History of ILC Involvement in NAT Standardization View Presentation
Cécile El Hana
NIBSC
Investigation of the efficacy of novel pathogen removal/inactivation methods for plasma pools View Presentation
K. Furuya
Japanese Red Cross Plasma Fractionation Center
Analysis of human parvovirus B19 components and strategies of non-enveloped virus removal from factor VIII concentrates View Presentation

Bayer Molecular
Bayer

Customer HIV-1 Quantitation QA Scheme View Presentation
Harry van Drimmelen
VQC-Sanquin
Sensitivity of NAT blood screening assays in performance evaluation and proficiency programs View Presentation
Michael Chudy
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut
Proficiency Testing of In-House Developed HIV-1 NAT for Blood Screening View Presentation
Dr. Hwei-Fang Cheng
Department of Health, Taiwan
Preparation of HBV DNA reference standards and the experience of HBV NAT in Taiwan View Presentation
Micha Nübling
PEI
CE mark issues - PEI View View Presentation
David Wood
WHO
WHO and Transplantation View Presentation
John Saldanha
Canadian Blood Services
NAT Detection of Blood Borne Viral Markers in Tissues from Cadaver Donors View Presentation
Bill Casley
Centre for Biologics Research
The Canadian Experience with WNV Testing View Presentation
Jean Gabert
ERT MEIDIA & APHM, France
Reference reagents for monitoring minimal residual disease View Presentation
Christoph Niederhauser
Blood Transfusion Service SRC Berne, Switzerland
Organisation and Experience with HCV-PCR in Switzerland View Presentation
D Candotti, N Etiz, A Parsyan, JP Allain Persistent human erythrovirus infection in blood donors View Presentation