This journal is devoted to all areas of transfusion medicine. These include the quality and security of blood products, therapy with blood components and plasma derivatives, transfusion-related questions in transplantation, stem cell manipulation, therapeutic and diagnostic problems of hemostasis, immuno-hematological investigations, and legal aspects of the production of blood products as well as hemotherapy. Both comprehensive reviews and primary publications that detail the newest work in transfusion medicine and hemotherapy promote the international exchange of knowledge within these disciplines. Consistent with this goal, continuing clinical education is also specifically addressed.

Editor-in-Chief
Peter Schlenke, MD – Department of Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Associate Editors
Peter Bugert, PhD – Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
Andreas Buser, PhD – Blutspendezentrum SRK beider Basel, Switzerland
Jens Dreier, PhD – Institute for Laboratory and Transfusion Medicine, Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Britta Eiz-Vesper, MD – Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
Beat M. Frey, MD – Blood Transfusion Service Zürich, SRC, Schlieren, Switzerland
Christoph Gassner, PhD – Independent Researcher, Zurich, Switzerland
Hans-Gert Heuft, MD – Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Immunehematology with Blood Bank Diagnostics, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Andreas Humpe, MD – Department of Anesthesiology, Grosshadern Medical Center of the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
Wolfgang Korte, MD – Center for Laboratory Medicine, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Behrouz Mansouri Taleghani – Klinik und Poliklinik für Hämatologie und Hämatologisches Zentrallabor, Inselspital Universitätsspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Axel Pruß, MD – Institute of Transfusion Medicine, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Sputtek, MD – Medical Laboratory Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Franz F. Wagner, MD – Institute Springe, German Red Cross Blood Service NSTOB, Springe, Germany

Editorial Board
Jason Acker, PhD – Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Tamam Bakchoul, MD – Center for Clinical Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital of Tübingen and German Red Cross Blood Donation Service Baden-Wuerttemberg-Hessen, Tübingen, Germany
Bita Bakhshai, JSD – Law Office Boltz, Scheller & Colleagues, Speyer, Germany
Gregor Bein, MD – Institute for Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Justus Liebig University, Gießen, Germany
Reinhard Burger, MD – Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Jürgen Bux, MD – German Red Cross Blood Donation Service West, Hagen, Germany
Toni Cathomen, PhD – Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Hermann Eichler, MD – Institute of Clinical Hemostaseology and Transfusion Medicine, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany
Birgit Gathof, MD – Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Holger Hackstein, MD – Institute for Transfusion Medicine and Hemostaseology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Reinhard Henschler, PhD –Institute for Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Holger Hennig, MD – Institute of Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
Volker Kiefel, MD – Institute for Transfusion Medicine, Rostock University Medical School, Rostock, Germany
Harald Klüter, MD – Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
Jens Meier, MD – Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Kepler University Hospital, Med Campus III, Linz, Austria
Rainer Moog, MD – German Red Cross Blood Donor Service North-East, Institute Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany
Andrew D. Mumford, PhD – Bristol CardioVascular, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Christoph Niederhauser, PhD – Interregional Blood Transfusion SRC Ltd. Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Ruth Offergeld, MD – Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Thierry Peyrard, PhD – National Institute of Blood Transfusion (INTS), Paris, France
Katharina Schallmoser, PhD – Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University (PMU) Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Rainer Seitz, MD – Paul Ehrlich Institute, Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Langen, Germany
Donat R. Spahn, MD – Institute of Anesthesiology, University and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Erwin Strasser, MD – Department of Transfusion Medicine & Haemostaseology, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Thomas Thiele, MD – Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Department of Transfusion Medicine, University Medical Center Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
Jean-Daniel Tissot, MD – Interregional Blood Transfusion, Lausanne, Switzerland
Torsten Tonn, MD – Institute for Transfusion Medicine Dresden, German Red Cross Blood Donation Service North/East, Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Pieter F. van der Meer, PhD – Department of Product and Process Development, Sanquin Blood Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nina Worel, MD – Department for Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Patrick Wuchter, PhD – Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
Mark H. Yazer, MD – Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA