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18th SoGAT Meeting

May 2005 Presentations

 

Speaker

Title of Talk

Presentation

Cindy WalkerPeach, Ph.D. Director, Development and Operations Ambion Diagnostics Extending the Armored RNA Technology to DNA
Darren Jardine and Staff of the National Serology Reference Laboratory, Australia Quality Assessment for Blood Screening Laboratories in Australia and the Asian Pacific.
Dirk Heckel,
PhD Diagnostic Sample Preparation and Stabilization QIAGEN GmbH
Standardization of Automated Sample Preparation for Viral Diagnostics
Dominique Challine
Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
Infectivity of Organ, Tissue and Cell Transplants in the Presence of Serological Markers of Hepatitis B Virus
Elwyn Griffiths
Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate
World Health Organization International Biological Standards
Gordon Elliott
Biotrin, 93 The Rise, Mount Merrion, Dublin, Ireland
Donor screening for parvovirus B19 antibodies: Reducing or eliminating the risk of transmission
Ewa Brojer
Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Warsaw, Poland
The current status of HCV, HIV, HBV NAT screening
H.-P. Grunert
Charité University Medicine Berlin
EQASs for Blood Borne Virus Genomes and BSE Prions from Cattle Brain and INSTAND Reference Materials
Harry Bos on behalf of Project Group Parvo B19 Safe Blood Components Anti-B19 screening for safe cellular blood products for at–risk patients
Harvey Holmes
National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC)
SoGAT and HIV NAT Standards - 2nd International Standard for HIV-1 RNA
Hiroshi YOSHIZAWA
Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
HBV screening Further improvement of blood safety
Jean-Pierre Allain Natural history of HBV infection
Marco Koppelman
Sanquin Diagnostic Services, Amsterdam
Validation of HCV-RNA detection in small test pools on cadaveric samples
M. Rios
CBER/FDA
Development of Standard Reagents for WNV NAT
Mark Manak, Ph.D.
BBI Diagnostics, Inc.
Linearity Panels HIV RNA, HCV RNA, HBV DNA, and CMV DNA
Marta José, Rodrigo Gajardo and Juan I. Jorquera Instituto Grifols S.A., Barcelona, SPAIN Stability of HCV, HIV-1 and HBV nucleic acids in plasma samples stored at different temperatures
Masahiro Satake
Tokyo Metropolitan Red Cross Blood Center
Lookback study for transfusion-related HBV infection in Japan
Matthias Gessner
Baxter AG, Vienna, Austria
Trust is good, control is better!
Michael Chudy
Paul-Ehrlich-Institut
Correlation of HBsAg and HBV DNA
MP Busch
NHLBI-REDS NAT Study Group
Relative Sensitivities of US Licensed NAT Assays for Detection of Viremia in Early HIV and HCV Infection
Paul D. Neuwald, PhD
AcroMetrix Corporation, Benicia, CA
MP Busch
NHLBI-REDS NAT Study Group
R.I. Wielgosz
BIPM
JCTLM Approach to Higher Order Standards
John Saldanha
Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA, USA
Feasibility of Synthetic Materials as Primary Standards
Sally Baylis
NIBSC
Standardisation of P. falciparum HBV, HCV and NAT
Susan E. Bromley, Ph.D.Director, Product Development, Bayer Healthcare Diagnostics Development and Characterization of Synthetic Standards: HCV RNA
Theo Cuypers
Sanquin
Are conversion factors to international units assay related?
Theo Cuypers
Sanquin
Presence (absence) of genotype 2 and 3 Erythrovirus DNA in manufacturing plasma
Thomas Laue Full characterization of HAV RNA window period positive blood donations in Germany
Yoshiaki Okada
National Institute of Infectious Disease
B19 inactivation by heat treatment with epithelial cell lines