Scott A. Kirkley, MD^*, Kelly F Henrichs, BS, MT(ASCP)^*, Amy P. Schmidt, MD PhD^*, Majed A. Refaai, MD, Richard P. Phipps, PhD^*, Sherry L Spinelli, PhD^*, Debra Masel, BS, MT(ASCP) SBB^*, Jill M Cholette, MD^*, Anthony Pietropaoli, MD^*, Joanna M. Heal, MD, MBBS, MRCP and Neil Blumberg, MD

University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Jialan Shi, MD, PhD, Xiu-Gui Lu, MD^* and Hemant S Thatte, MSc, PhD^*

Cardiothoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA

James A Bynum, PhD^1*, Tiffani Chance, BS^2*, Michael Adam Meledeo, PhD^1* and Heather F. Pidcoke, MD, PhD^1*

¹Institute of Surgical Research, US Army, San Antonio, TX
²John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Ulrich Jaeger, MD¹, Eileen L Rose^2*, Andrew Singh^2*, Sebastian H A Feickert^3*, Simon Panzer^4*, Bernd Jilma, MD⁵, James C. Gilbert, MD^2* and Sandip Panicker, PhD²

¹Dept. of Medicine I, Division of Hematology and Hemostaseology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
²True North Therapeutics, Inc., South San Francisco, CA
³Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
⁴Department of Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
⁵Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Rick Kapur, MD, PhD^*, Michael Kim, BSc^*, Shanjee Shanmugabhavananthan^*, Edwin R. Speck, BRT^*, Rukhsana Aslam, PhD^*, Li Guo, MD, Anne Zufferey, PhD^* and John W. Semple, PhD

St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Deepak Singhal, MD, FRCPA^1*, Sophia Hague, BAppSc (MedSc)^2*, David Roxby, MAppSc AFRCPA FFSc[RCPA]^3*, L Amilia Wee, BSc(Hons)^4*, Oi-Lin Lee, MBBS, FRCPA^1*, Romi Sinha, MBBS, MIBMS, FACHI^5*, Rakchha Chhetri, MBBS^6*, James X Gray, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, MD, PhD⁷, Pratyush Giri, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA^1*, Kathryn Robinson, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA^7*, Shriram Nath, MBBS, DM, FRCPA^8*, Nicholas Wickham, FRCPA, FRACP, FRCPath⁹, Chi-hung Hui, MBBS, MRCP, FRCPath, FRACP, FRCPA^9*, David T Yeung, BSc, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA¹, David M Ross, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA^1*, Ian D Lewis, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA⁴, Peter G Bardy, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA^10*, L Bik To, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, PhD⁴ and Devendra K Hiwase, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, MD, PhD⁴

¹Haematology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
²Transfusion Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
³Transfusion Services, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia
⁴Haematology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
⁵Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia
⁶SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
⁷Haematology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South, Australia
⁸Haematology, Ashford Specialist Centre, Ashford, Australia
⁹Haematology, Icon Cancer Care, Kurralta Park, Australia
¹⁰Haematology/Oncology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, Australia

Lyla A Youssef^1,2*, Stuart Phillip Weisberg, MD, PhD,^1*, Sheila Bandyopadhyay, BA^3*, Eldad A. Hod, MD³ and Steven L Spitalnik, MD⁴

¹Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
³Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
⁴Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY

Stuart Phillip Weisberg, MD, PhD,^1*, Lyla A Youssef^2*, Sheila Bandyopadhyay, BA^3*, Richard O. Francis, MD, PhD⁴, James C. Zimring, MD, PhD⁵ and Eldad A. Hod, MD³

¹Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
³Departments of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
⁴Laboratory of Transfusion Biology, Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
⁵Department of Laboratory Medicine and Division of Hematology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Masahiro Takeyama, MD, PhD^1*, Keiji Nogami, MD. PhD^1*, Tomoko Matsumoto, PhD^2*, Takehisa Kitazawa, DVM^3*, Kunihiro Hattori, PhD^3* and Midori Shima, MD, PhD²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan
²Department of Pediatrics, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan
³Chugai Pharmaceutical, Gotemba, Japan

Luciana Teofili^*, Caterina Giovanna Valentini^*, Nicola Piccirillo^*, Roberta De Blasi^*, Patrizia Chiusolo^*, Rossana Putzulu^*, Stefan Hohaus^*, Marco Lai^*, Luana Fianchi^*, Maria Bianchi^*, Gina Zini, Simona Sica^* and Livio Pagano^*

Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Claudia I Chapuy, MD^1*, Maria D Aguad, MT(ASCP)^2*, Rachel T Nicholson, MLS(ASCP)CM^3*, James P AuBuchon, MD^4*, Claudia S Cohn, MD, PhD^5*, Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH^6*, Joan Cid, MD, PhD^7*, Walter Dzik, MD⁸, Mark K. Fung, MD, PhD^9*, Andreas Greinacher, MD¹⁰, Ai Leen Ang, MD^11*, Dana V. Devine, PhD¹², Nancy M Dunbar, MD^13*, Henk Garritsen, MD^14*, Lawrence T Goodnough, MD¹⁵, Ross Herron, MD^16*, Tor A. Hervig, MD, PhD^17*, C. Michael Knudson, MD, PhD^18*, Jose M Kutner, MD, PhD¹⁹, Frank Nizzi, DO^20*, Suchitra Pandey, MD^21*, Benjamin Rioux-Masse, MD, FRCPC²², Kathleen Selleng, MD^10*, Joseph Sweeney, MD^23*, Minoko Takanashi, MD, Ph.D^24*, Aaron A.R. Tobian, MD, PhD^25*, Lorna Wall, MSc^26*, Silvano Wendel, MD, PhD^27*, David A Westerman²⁸, Meredith Unger, PhD, MBA^29*, Parul Doshi^30*, Michael F. Murphy, MD, FRCP, FRCPath³¹, Larry J. Dumont, PhD, MBA³², Richard M. Kaufman, MD² and The BEST Collaborative^33*

¹St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, MA
²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
⁴Bloodworks Northwest, Seattle, WA
⁵University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
⁶Bloodworks Northwest, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
⁷Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
⁸Blood Transfuson Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
⁹University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT
¹⁰Institute for Immunology & Transfusion Medicine, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
¹¹Blood Services Group, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore, Singapore
¹²Univ. of British Columbia, Canadian Blood Services, Vancouver, BC, Canada
¹³Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
¹⁴Städtisches Klinikum Braunschweig gGmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
¹⁵Pathology and Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
¹⁶American Red Cross Blood Services, Pomona, CA
¹⁷Haukeland universitetssjukehus, Bergen, Norway
¹⁸University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
¹⁹Hemotherapy and Cell Therapy Department, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil
²⁰Blood Systems, Scottsdale, AZ
²¹Blood Centers of the Pacific, San Francisco, CA
²²Department of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
²³Blood Bank The Miriam Hospital, Barrington, RI
²⁴Blood Service Headquarters, Japanese Red Cross, Tokyo, Japan
²⁵John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
²⁶New Zealand Blood Service, Auckland, New Zealand
²⁷Hospital Sirio Libanes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
²⁸Department of Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
²⁹Janssen, Inc., Raritan, NJ
³⁰Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA
³¹NHS Blood and Transplant, Oxford, United Kingdom
³²Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
³³Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH

Ding Wen Wu, MD, PhD^*, Uehlinger Joan, MD^*, Szymanski James, MD^*, Mohandas Kala, MD^*, Ronald Walsh, MD^*, Sadiqa Karim, MD^*, Evan Himchak, MD^*, Ritu Gupta, MD^* and Daniel Goldstein, MD^*

Montefiore medical center, Bronx, NY

Christine M. Cserti-Gazdewich, MD¹, Jacob M Pendergrast, MD, FRCPC², Yulia Lin, MD³, Jeannie Callum, MD³, Lani D. Lieberman, MD^4*, Alioska Escorcia, MLT^4* and Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, PhD^5*

¹Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology / Medical Oncology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
²Laboratory Medicine Program (Blood Transfusion Laboratory) & Division of Hematology, University of Toronto, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
³Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
⁴Blood Transfusion Laboratory, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
⁵Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Harold Clifford Sullivan, MD^1*, Connie Maridith Arthur, PhD¹, Seema Patel, PhD^2*, Jeanne E. Hendrickson, MD³, Alan H Lazarus, PhD⁴ and Sean R. Stowell, MD, PhD¹

¹Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
²Department of Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
³Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
⁴Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science of St.Michael's Hospital; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto; St. Michael's Hospital; Toronto Platelet Immunobiology Group, Toronto, ON, Canada

Ajai Chari, MD¹, Toshihisa Satta^2*, Amit Tayal^3*, Sundar Jagannath, MD⁴, Hearn Jay Cho, MD, PhD¹, Samir Parekh, MD¹, Kenneth Lau^1*, Gillian Morgan^1*, Donna Catamero^5*, Juliet Escalon^6*, Erika Florendo^6*, Daniel Verina^6*, Parul Doshi^7*, Huaibao Feng^8*, Clarissa Uhlar^7*, Imran Khan^8*, Tahamtan Ahmadi⁷, Peter M. Voorhees⁹, Maria-Victoria Mateos¹⁰ and Suzanne Arinsburg^11*

¹Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
²Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY
³Department of Clinical Pathology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
⁴Hematology and Medical Oncology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
⁵The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY
⁶Ruttenberg Treatment Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
⁷Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Spring House, PA
⁸Janssen Research & Development, LLC, Raritan, NJ
⁹Division of Hematology/Oncology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
¹⁰University Hospital of Salamanca/IBSAL, Salamanca, Spain
¹¹Blood Bank and Transfusion Services, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY

Marisa B Marques, MD, Robinna G Lorenz, MD/PhD^* and Lance A Williams, MD^*

Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Brenda J Bendix, SBB^1*, Eapen K. Jacob, MD¹, Sara M Barnes^1*, Craig Tauscher^1*, Sandra Bryant, M.S.^2*, James R Stubbs, MD^1* and Dennis A. Gastineau, MD^1,3

¹Division of Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
²Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
³Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN