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NHS Blood and Transplant has a wide range of scientists available to speak on the science of blood, as well as blood donation and transfusion.

Spokespeople are knowledgeable about the hundreds of different blood types, blood disorders, rare blood, blood matching, safety and surveillance in donation and transfusion, growing and altering red blood cells and other blood components, including plasma and platelets.

Specialists in apheresis treatments can also talk to how blood and plasma can help to treat rare conditions and how regular red blood cell exchanges can help people living with sickle cell disease.

NHS Blood and Transplant’s organ donation and transplantation specialists can discuss how organs are matched, tissue donation (such as heart valves and corneas), the donation process, how organs can be preserved and repaired for transplant and new technologies and techniques within the field.

A range of spokespeople can cover topics including stem cell and cord blood donation and transplantation, how donors are recruited, what the donation process is like and how stem cells are matched between donor and patient, as well as research around the field.

Cell and gene therapy specialists can discuss gene editing, rare blood and tissue types, genetic testing for blood, organ and stem cell matching, Biotechnology, Car-T and other similar therapies and much more.