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We provide blood, tissue and other specialist services to hospitals throughout the country, including the National Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Reference Laboratory, the Irish Unrelated Bone Marrow Registry and the Tissue Bank.

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BlooDHIT 2024

Ireland's 2nd Blood Donation, Haematology, Infection and Transfusion Conference will be held on 14-15 November 2024. Check out our presentations from our last conference

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BlooDHIT 2024

The second Blood Donation, Haematology, Infection and Transfusion Conference – BlooDHIT 2024 – will take place in Dublin, Ireland from 14th-15th November 2024

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