Facts at a Glance

Years of Operation: 50

Number of Employees: 54

Facilities
Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) is housed within Blood Centers of the Pacific in San Francisco, CA.  BSRI has state of the art equipment to support research related to blood and blood product safety in the areas of molecular biology, immunology, virology, tissue culture, cell processing and epidemiology.  BSRI staff has 9000 sq. ft. of labs (including a biosafety level 3 lab), and a 2200 square foot freezer room with capacity to store more than one million specimens. 

Major Grantors
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Blood Systems, Inc.

Major Research Areas

• Epidemiology/Donor Behavior
• Molecular Virology
• Molecular Transfusion Medicine
• Immunology
• Repository and Testing Services
• Molecular Diagnostics
• Cell Therapy

Academic Collaborations
University of California, San Francisco; The Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Davis; University of Southern California; Emory University; University of Washington; Johns Hopkins University; Cornell University; University of Pittsburgh; Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; Children’s Medical Center, Oakland; University Hospitals of Cleveland; New York State Department of Health; U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs; New York Blood Center; Oklahoma Blood Institute; The American Red Cross; Thomas Jefferson University, Kimmel Cancer Center; University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Partners AIDS Research Center; Torrey Pines Research Institute; Northwestern University; Institut Pasteur.

Commercial Collaborations
AcroMetrix; Gambro, BCT/Navigant; VI Technology (Vitex); Haemonetics; Ortho Diagnostics Systems; Gen-Probe, Inc.; Abbott Laboratories; Becton-Dickinson; Boston Biomedica, Inc.; Chiron Corporation; Coulter Immunology; Roche Molecular Systems; BioRad.