
079: Pioneering Pathogen Reduction with Ray Goodrich
Blood Bank Guy Essentials Podcast
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The Importance of Stabilization of Membranes in Blood Products
The story really starts back in the mid to late 1980s. I was a graduate student at Caltech and I was working on methods to understand stabilization of membranes during freezing and drying. The consequences of that kind of like playing Russian roulette unfortunately led to a lot of incidents of disease transmission. People were beginning to think that we needed a new way of being able to address blood safety.
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