Associate Professor Denese C. Marks

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Associate Professor Denese C Marks

A/Prof Denese C. Marks

National Research Program Leader - Product Development and Transfusion Studies
Product Development and transfusion studies  R&D Leadership Team 

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
2024
Vox Sanguinis
119: 1257-1267
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Platelets retain function and can be stored following disruption of human leucocyte antigens

Davis AM, Rawson R, Pahn G, Daly J, Marks DC
2024
Vox Sanguinis
118:301-309.
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A/Prof Denese Marks articles

a blue frozen blood box is being taken out of a freezer by a scientist wearing gloves and a gown

Frozen blood research

During active combat, the prompt and safe supply of blood products can save the lives of our Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel.

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Explainer: what’s actually in our blood?

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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