Steve Kleinman, MD
Kleinman Biomedical Research, Victoria and
Clinical Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC CANADA

Research Interests: Transfusion Medicine; Blood Safety

http://www.pathology.ubc.ca/

Nico Lelie, PhD
Lelie Research, Paris FRANCE

Willi McFarland, MD, PhD, MPH, & TM
Director HIV Epidemiology Section, San Francisco Department of Public Health; Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco; Faculty, UCSF Global Health Sciences, Prevention and Public Health Group

http://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/PPHG/bios/mcfarland_willi.html

Kim Nguyen, PhD
Senior Scientist for Cell Processing, Terumo BCT, Lakewood, CO

Kim received her AB in Chemistry from Princeton University in 1999, her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 2005, and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Josh Hare and Ian McNiece at the University of Miami focused on preclinical process translation and clinical cGMP scale-up of MSC, dendritic cell, and HSC cultures.  She also participated in the IND submissions  and GMP manufacturing of patient –infused products for  four clinical trials based upon the direct injection of MSC into the heart for myocardial infarction and dilated cardiomyopathy indications (PROMETHEUS, TAC-HFT,  POSEIDON, and POSEIDON-DCM trials). Kim joined Terumo BCT from the University of Miami in July 2010.

Satish K. Pillai, PhD
Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine

Research Interests: Viral genetic determinants of HIV/AIDS pathogenesis and transmission, Molecular evolution of HIV-1 in the central nervous system, Effects of interferon-induced host factors on HIV-1 and HCV replication

http://id.medicine.ucsf.edu/about/facpages/pallaisatish.html

Ester C. Sabino, MD, PhD
Head, Department of Molecular Biology, Fundação Pró-Sangue/Hemocentro de Sao Paulo, and Associate Professor at the Department of Infectious Disease, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, BRAZIL

Research Interests:
Blood Borne Infectious Disease
Blood Safety
Chagas Disease
HIV Diversity

Phil Spinella, MD, FCCM
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Critical Care Translational Research Program, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Research Interests: Blood product storage lesion effects on microvasculature and clinical outcomes; Coagulation monitoring

http://peds.wustl.edu/

Phillip Williamson, PhD
Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Creative Testing Solutions (CTS), Tempe, Arizona

Research Interests: Development of rapid nucleic acid and immunologic diagnostic systems for vector-borne pathogens; Development of methods and tools for the rapid assessment of disease outbreaks; Metagenomic analysis of hematophagus arthropod microbiomes; Horizontal gene transfer in spotted fevers