Denese C. Marks

A/Prof Denese C. Marks

National Research Program Leader - Product Development and Transfusion Studies

Associate Professor, School of Medicine, The University of Sydney

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Denese leads the Product Development and Transfusion Studies team and has over 30 years’ research experience. She holds an adjunct appointment with the School of Medicine, University of Sydney. Her research focuses on improving blood component processing and storage, including donor attributes that may influence blood component quality, and clinical trials of new blood products.

She has over 130 peer-reviewed publications and holds international leadership roles with the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative, and the International Society of Blood Transfusion.

Awards

Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion (ANZSBT) grant
Chief Investigator on two NHMRC-funded clinical trial grants
Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council grant
Chief investigator on a Medical Research Future Fund grant

Leadership

Chair of the ISBT Working Party for Blood Components
Executive committee of ISBT Cellular Therapies Working Party
Vox Sanguinis section editor for Blood Component Collection and Processing
Team leader of the BEST Collaborative Conventional Components Team
Reviewer for journals including Transfusion, Vox Sanguinis, Platelets, Journal of Transfusion and Apheresis Science, and Journal of Proteomics
Abstract reviewer for ISBT and AABB conference submissions

Key publications

Coagulation factors in spray-dried plasma: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Mitra B, Biggins PJC, Marks DC, Reade MC

2025

Transfusion

65: 1012-1020

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Assessing the kinetics of oxygen-unloading from red cells using FlowScore, a flow-cytometric proxy of the functional quality of blood

Rabcuka J, Smethurst PA, Dammert K, Saker J, Aran G, Walsh GM, Tan JCG, Codinach M, McTaggart K, Marks DC, Bakker SJL, McMahon A, Di Angelantonio E, Roberts DJ, Blonski S, Korczyk PM, Shirakami A, Cardigan R, Swietach P

2025

eBioMedicine

111:10549

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Characterization of the in vitro quality parameters of cold-stored platelets containing aggregates

Johnson L, Roan C, Lei P, Marks DC

2025

Vox Sanguinis

Jun 18

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Extending the post-thaw shelf-life of cryoprecipitate when stored at refrigerated temperatures

Winter KM, Webb RG, Mazur E, Dennington PM, Marks DC