Facts at a Glance

Years of Operation: 49

Number of Employees

• Investigators: 12
• Postdoctoral Fellows: 10
• Technical and Clinical Staff: 23
• Administrative: 8

Facilities
The staff occupies 12,000 sq. ft. of space (5000 sq. ft. of labs, 2000 sq. ft. freezer rooms and 5000 sq. ft. office administrative space). 

In 2005, BSRI opened a new wing of research laboratories that includes immunology and virology core laboratory facilities and general laboratory space for the addition of new investigators.

Grant Money
$4-5 million in 2005

Major Grantors
National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Blood Systems Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Major Research Areas

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

Status
In 1959, BSRI began as a research program of the Irwin Memorial Blood Bank, the nation’s first community blood bank in the nation. In 1997, Irwin merged with Peninsula Blood Bank to become Blood Centers of the Pacific (BCP). Two years later, BCP affiliated with Blood Systems, Inc., (BSI) the nation’s second largest blood collection organization. BSRI became a separate division of BSI in 2004.

Academic Collaborations
University of California, San Francisco; 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.