Senior Research Fellow
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Dr Dianne E. van der Wal is a senior research fellow at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood R&D in Sydney, Australia. She studies all factors influencing the quality of platelet components for transfusion. She also has interests in platelet glycans, microparticles and platelet clearance mechanisms. She is the social media/associate editor for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis and one of the co-chairs of the Platelet Physiology SSC. She is also a member of the Australian & New Zealand Society for Blood Transfusion (ANZSBT) Education Standing Committee. She enjoys mentoring of students and is active in science communication on Twitter. During her first postdoc in the lab of Heyu Ni, she previously showed that desialylation is important for platelet clearance in bleeding disorder ITP, potentially leading to novel diagnosis or treatment approaches. During her PhD, at the University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands, she demonstrated novel platelet apoptosis pathways following cold-storage.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
4:30 PM – 4:31 PM
Sunday, July 10, 2022
5:00 PM – 5:10 PM
Monday, July 11, 2022
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM