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    Dianne E. Van Der Wal, PhD

    Senior Research Fellow
    R&D Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
    Sydney (Alexandria), New South Wales, Australia

    Dr Dianne E. van der Wal is a senior research fellow at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood R&D in Sydney, Australia. She studies all factors influencing the quality of platelet components for transfusion. She also has interests in platelet glycans, microparticles and platelet clearance mechanisms. She is a social media/associate editor for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, a principal editor for Platelets and co-chair of the Platelet Physiology SSC of the ISTH. She is also a member of the Australian & New Zealand Society for Blood Transfusion (ANZSBT) Education Standing Committee. She received multiple (inter)national grants and awards. She enjoys mentoring of students and is active in science communication on Twitter. During her first postdoc based in Toronto, Canada, she previously showed that desialylation is important for platelet clearance in bleeding disorder ITP, potentially leading to novel diagnosis or treatment approaches. During her PhD, at the University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands, she demonstrated novel platelet apoptosis pathways following cold-storage.

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