Dr. Crispin is a clinical and laboratory haematologist, Clinical Director of the Blood Counts Program at Canberra Hospital, Australia, and Clinical Lead for Oncology in the New South Wales Local Health District. He is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Australian National University Medical School. He serves on the National Blood Transfusion Committee of Red Cross LifeBlood and the National Blood Authority’s Patient Blood Management Advisory Committee. He is chair of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion’s Clinical Practice Improvement Committee and a member of the Council. His interests include both benign and malignant haematology, with particular interests in transfusion medicine, patient blood management, and haemostasis.

Associate Professor John-Paul Tung is a Senior Research Fellow at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood where he leads a team of eight research staff and eight postgraduate students. He also holds adjunct positions with Queensland University of Technology, the University of Queensland, and the University of the Sunshine Coast. His team’s research looks at how blood changes in between collection and transfusion, and how these changes might impact the patient. Of particular interest are transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) and extracellular vesicles. John-Paul was awarded his PhD in 2012 from the University of Queensland. His thesis focused on developing the first large animal model of TRALI using sheep. He has over 45 peer-reviewed publications with a total of over 1,000 citations. One of the papers from his PhD was awarded the International Society of Blood Transfusion’s Vox Sanguinis Best Paper Prize. He has presented an international and national conferences, and has been the recipient of around $8 million of competitive external grant funding. He has supervised 18 student completions, including 4 PhD students. He is a former Secretary and Member of the International Society of Blood Transfusion’s Young Professionals Council, and is a current Member of their Blood Components and Granulocyte Immunobiology Working Parties.

Dr. Ben Winskel-Wood is a former student and current Research Assistant at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood as part of the Product Development and Storage Team. He was awarded a Ph.D. in September 2023 from the University of Technology Sydney for his thesis, which focused on how novel platelet storage methods can affect the immune characteristics of platelet components. He is the author of 10 peer-reviewed publications, including work conducted as part of the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion Collaborative (BEST). Ben’s current research interests focus on examining the functional impact of novel platelet storage methods to aid their clinical evaluation.