Matthias Canault, PhD^1*, Daniel Duerschmied, MD^1*, Alexander Brill, PhD^1*, Ian Sean Patten^1*, Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD² and Denisa D. Wagner, PhD¹

¹Harvard Medical School, Immune Disease Institute, Boston, MA
²Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Monique Gelderman-Fuhrmann, PhD¹ and Jaroslav G. Vostal, MD, PhD²

¹Lab. of Cellular Hematology, Food & Drug Administration, Rockville, MD
²Lab. of Cellular Hem., Bethesda, MD

Jana Semberova, M.D.^1*, Karel Holada, PhD², Olga Simakova, Ph.D.^3*, Monique P. Gelderman-Fuhrmann, Ph.D.^1* and Jan Simak, Ph.D.¹

¹Lab. of Cellular Hematology, CBER FDA, Rockville, MD
²Inst. of Immunology and Microbiology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
³USUHS, Bethesda, MD

Peter Schubert, PhD, Danielle Coupland^*, Geraldine M. Walsh, PhD^*, Cindy Chen^* and Dana V. Devine, PhD

Univ. of British Columbia, Canadian Blood Services, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Tracy Murphy^1*, Mary R Cahill^1*, Jim Fagan^2*, Croxon Harry^2*, Mohammed Khan^1*, Oonagh Gilligan^1*, Stephen McGrath^1* and William G Murphy^2*

¹Department of Haematology, Cork, Ireland
²National Blood Centre, Dublin 8, Ireland

Albrecht Groener¹, Martin Groschup^2* and Wolfram Schäfer^1*

¹Virology, CSL Behring, Marburg, Germany
²Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Greifswald - Insel Riems

Valery Leytin¹, David J. Allen^1*, Asuman Mutlu^1*, Sergiy Mykhaylov^1*, Elena Lyubimov^1*, Armen V. Gyulkhandanyan^1* and John Freedman, MD²

¹Transfusion and Laboratory Medicine, The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
²Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Giovanni Migliaccio, Ph.D.^1*, Massimo Sanchez, Ph.D^1*, Francesca Masiello, Ph.D.^1*, Valentina Tirelli, Ph.D^1*, Katija Iliecic, Ph.D.^2*, Annalisa Mancini, Ph.D.^3*, Paul S. Frenette, MD³ and Anna Rita Migliaccio, Ph.D.^3*

¹Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Istituto Superiore di Sanita', Rome, Italy
²Hematology/Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanita', Rome, Italy
³Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Heloise Pockel Fernandes, Bsc^1*, Adriana Fontes, PhD^2*, André A Thomaz, Msc^3*, Luiz C Barbosa, PhD^3*, Vagner Castro, MD, PhD⁴, Carlos Lenz Cesar, PhD^3* and Maria Lourdes Barjas-Castro, MD, PhD⁵

¹Department of Pharmacology, State University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas - SP, Brazil
²Departamento de Biofísica e Radiobiologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Recife - PE, Brazil
³Departamento de Eletrônica Quântica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas - SP, Brazil
⁴Dept. of Hematology/Transf Medicine Ctr., State Univ. of Campinas - UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
⁵Trans. Med., Carlos Chagas 480, Hem. Unicamp - State Univ. of Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Fabiola G Rizzatti, MD^1*, Melissa A Qazi, BS^1*, David Stroncek, MD^2*, Nathawut Sibmooh, MD^1*, Barbora Piknova, PhD^1* and Alan N Schechter, MD¹

¹Molecular Medicine Branch, National Institutes of Health - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD
²Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD