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January 1st 2010: BCSI wins Fiscal Year 2010 Department of Defense Appropriation award.  Read more.
June 1st 2009: Amsterdam, Sanquin Blood Bank North East in the Netherlands, implemented 100% pH measurement for all of its produced buffy coat platelets, utilizing the BCSI pH1000 System and system at the blood bank after processing, at the distribution centres and at all the major hospitals in the North Eastern part of the Netherlands.

After a year Sanquin will evaluate the data, system and the BCSI platelet storage bags to determine if the platelet storage time can be increased in the Netherlands.  This is a major achievement for BCSI, as the leadership of Sanquin throughout the EU is expected to have a positive cascading effect in other countries.

Sanquin Blood Bank is non-invasively measuring pH with the BCSI pH1000 System.
September 2008: BCSI and CaridianBCT Sign Option Agreement
January 2008: Quality of Platelets can be measured fast and efficient by new invention
May 2007: BCSI receives CE Mark Approval for novel platelet storage bag technology
March 31, 2006: BCSI certified ISO 13485:2003.
March 14, 2006: "Big idea, small machine" - New testing machine could keep platelets safely sterile longer article in the King County Journal by Clayton Park.
January 16, 2006: "Small, ambitious biotech bags $3.6M" article in the Puget Sound Business Journal by Eric Engleman. 
October 17, 2005: New Study Demonstrates Accuracy of Non-Invasive Method to Measure Platelet pH; Blood Cell Storage, Inc.,  (BCSI) today released preliminary results showing its proprietary pH Monitoring System can determine the pH of platelets while maintaining bag sterility.  The results were presented today at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) in Seattle, Washington.  To learn more click here.
March 4, 2005: Platelet rich plasma product verification.  BCSI has successfully measured the pH in multiple platelet and plasma samples using our prototype instrument with various interfering substances.  These studies were carried out in collaboration with our partners at Sanquin. 
January 17, 2005: pH detector manufacturing prototype instruments and inserts completed.  BCSI announces that the manufacturing prototype pH readers have been completed.  These machines will perform our optical pH measurement of the plasma bag contents.  BCSI has also completed the design and mold building for our injection molded blood bag inserts.  These inserts will house the surface for our optical pH sensitive chemistry.

Upcoming Events

June 26-July 1, 2010: BCSI will be present at the ISBT-DGTI, Berlin, Germany