The AABB Annual Meeting is the yearly scientific and educational conference of AABB, formerly the American Association of Blood Banks and now the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies, the accrediting and standards-setting body for blood banks and transfusion services. It combines plenary science, oral and poster abstracts, and a commercial exhibition spanning transfusion medicine, cellular therapies and biotherapies. Attendance runs around 3,600 from across the world.
For a cold chain professional, blood banking is a temperature-controlled discipline in itself: red cells held at 1-6C, platelets at 20-24C, plasma frozen, all governed by AABB Standards enforced through accreditation. The meeting is where those storage, transport, validation and monitoring requirements are discussed and revised, and where storage-equipment and temperature-monitoring vendors show product. It is a practical read on the regulatory direction of blood and cell-therapy cold chains.
The room is transfusion medicine physicians, blood bank and transfusion service directors, medical technologists, cell-therapy and biotherapies staff, and quality and regulatory personnel, alongside blood centre operations leaders. Exhibitors include blood collection, cold storage and temperature-monitoring suppliers. The audience skews clinical and laboratory rather than logistics, though supply and distribution roles attend.
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