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Delivering world class blood and tissue services for the people of Ireland

Clinical Services

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.

Research

We aim to be research leaders, at the forefront of blood transfusion medicine, providing the answers and the evidence that will ultimately benefit our donors and patients.

Education

We support the continuous development and education of our staff, our students and our colleagues

New guidelines for Individual Donor Risk Assessment

Prof. Tor Hervig discusses IBTS changes to Individual Donor Risk Assessment.

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New guidelines for Individual Donor Risk Assessment

Apply to use blood components in your research

We currently support over 100 researchers across Ireland through provision of blood components

Components for Research

Research Postdoctorate Opportunity

Looking for 'bloody' interesting research? We have 2 postdoctorate positions to investigate platelet storage and ABO blood group in collaboration with RCSI Irish Centre for Vascular Biology

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Bright Ideas 2023

Invitation to Innovation

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My Green Labs

Check out our Green Lab Guide and learn how to make your laboratory more sustainable

Innovation Week 2022

Check our 2022 National Public Service Innovation Week programme

Reporting to the National Haemovigilance Office (NHO)

NHO collects and analyses reports of adverse events and reactions in blood transfusion in the Republic of Ireland.

Our Blood Components & Products

Specifications for all of our blood products and components can be found here

Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing

We offer a Human Leukocyte Antigen molecular typing service.

Peer-Reviewed Research Publications

We're delighted to share our peer-reviewed research publication list

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