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The Scott Murphy Memorial Lecture was established in 2007 by the BEST Collaborative in recognition of the tremendous contribution of the late Dr. Scott Murphy, a past chair of the BEST Collaborative, had made to the field of transfusion medicine and to the science of platelet storage. The BEST Collaborative encourages junior faculty involved in the broadly understood field of transfusion medicine to apply for this unique award. 

Meeting Presenter Topic
BEST LVXI
Oct 2023
Jonathan A. Stefely, MD, PhD An automated red cell morphology differen4al—the RBC-diff—as a new diagnos4c and prognos4c tool for transfusion medicine and hematology.
BEST LVX
Mar 2023
Yasuyuki Arai, MD, PhD, FACP The best management in cytotherapy, transfusion, transplantation, CAR-T, and beyond
BEST LXIV
Sept 2022
Ruchika Goel, MD, MPH BIG DATA applications and the power of collaborative efforts in yielding high-quality research output
BEST LXIII
Apr 2022
Jamie Nash The understated importance of extracellular vesicles in cold-stored platelet concentrates
BEST 30th Anniversary
Nov 2021
Shailaja Hegde, PhD RhoA targeting suppresses cold-induced platelet lesion and allows refrigerated storage of functional human platelets up to fourteen days
BEST LXI
Apr 2021
Beau R. Webber, PhD The bench-to-bedside development of a novel, first-in-human CRISPR/Cas9 engineered T cell therapy for metastatic gastrointestinal cancer
BEST LX
Nov 2020
Krystalyn E. Hudson, PhD  Tolerance and Autoimmunity to Red Blood Cells 
BEST LIX
June 2020
Sandya R. Panch, MD, MPH Engineering blood cells for improved transfusion, transplantation, and immunotherapies: Studies in mice, macaques and (wo)men
BEST LVIII
Oct 2019
Sean R. Stowell, MD, PhD The Development and Consequences of RBC Alloimmunization
BEST LVII
Apr 2019
Cliona O'Farrelly, PhD, FTCD Infection with HCV-contaminated anti-D reveals viral resistance: is there a mechanism?’
BEST LVI
Oct 2018
Robert Makar, MD, PhD Diagnosis and Treatment of TTP: Lessons from the Harvard TMA Research Consortium
BEST LIV
Oct 2017
Robert A.J. Signer, PhD Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Lost in Translation
BEST LIII
Apr 2017
Zoe McQuilten, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FRCPA Transfusion and patient blood management research in critical illness and trauma
BEST LI
Apr 2016
Cedric Ghevaert, MD, PhD Generating platelets for transfusion in vivo: feasibility and safety
BEST L
Oct 2015
Angelo D'Allessandro, PhD Metabolomics of Stored Red Blood Cells
BEST XLIX
Apr 2015
Fabrice Cognasse, PhD Emerging roles for platelets as immune and inflammatory cells
BEST XLVIII
Oct 2014
Eldad Arie Hod, MD The side effects of RBC transfusions
BEST XLVII
Apr 2014
Abel Sánchez-Aguilera, PhD Selective regulation of hematopoietic progenitors by estrogens provides a basis for new anti-leukemic strategies
BEST XLVI
Oct 2013
Alex Benson, MD Plasma Transfusion in Liver Disease: Deadly Dogma
BEST XLIV
Oct 2012
Nicole C. Smits, PhD Novel Role of Anticoagulant Heparan Sulfate in Antithrombin Anti-Inflammatory Signaling
BEST XLIII
April 2012
Hendrik Feys, PhD ADAMTS13, a primary hemostasis maverick
BEST XLII
Oct 2011
 Shibani Pati, MD, PhD Modulation of Vascular Stability in Traumatic Injury by Plasma and MSCs
 BEST XLI
April 2011
 PD Dr rer.nat. Karen Bieback Adipose Tissue: Not All Bad? Adipose Stem Cells for Cell Therapy
 BEST XL
Oct 2010
Patricia A. R. Brunker, MD, DPhil (Oxon) Blood Groups: Anthropology and Blood Products
BEST XXXIX
March 2010
 Dra. Ana M. Galán Platelets: Hemostasis, Transfusion and Beyond
BEST XXXVIII
Oct 2009
Erin Meyer, DO and Meghan Delaney, DO, MPH Improving the Reporting of Platelet Clinical Trials
BEST XXXVII
Apr 2009
 Dr Aneta Kopacz The impact of NAT for Blood Transfusion Safety and Understanding of Biology of HBV Infection
BEST XXXVI
Oct 2008
 Christine Cserti-Gazdewich MD, FRCP(C) The Deadliest Ties that Bind: Malaria and the Immunohematology of Host Blood Groups
BEST XXXV
Apr 2008
 Dr Nick Watkins Platelet Functional Genomics - The Bloodomics Project
BEST XXXIV
Oct 2007
 Garth H Utter, MD MSc Post Transfusion Microchimerism
BEST XXXIII
Apr 2007
 Dr Sandra Cauwenberghs Platelet Responsiveness and Function During Storage: Implications for Platelet Transfusion Therapy