Elizabeth Knight

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Elizabeth Knight

National Clinical and Donor Research Manager

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Elizabeth works across a number of R&D activities and manages a multi disciplinary team of researchers who collectively form the Donor Research team. The Donor Research team strives to build the sustainability of the donor panel, maintain their health and well being as well as contribute to research performed by external collaborators in Healthcare.

Elizabeth completed her Masters degree in Public Health at the University of Wollongong and went on to gain more than 15 years’ experience working in clinical trials, both locally and overseas, including more than three years for the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada working on Hepatitis C treatment for current and former Injection Drug Users. On joining Lifeblood Elizabeth lead the first trial in Donors direct to Plasma, the ADOPT study.

Member
  • Association of Regulatory and Clinical Scientists (ARCS) Professional Development In Therapeutics

Key Publications

Evaluation of a sterile surgical skin marker to indicate the optimal vein for venepuncture in the blood donation setting.
Bell B, O'Donovan J, Wright ST, Gemelli CN, Knight E, Hirani R.
2020
Vox Sanguinis
115:377-387
Evaluation of a tool to score donor vein suitability for blood donation.
Hirani R, O'Donovan J, Knight E, Bell B, Mondy P.
2019
Vox Sanguinis
114(6):588-594