Doctor Kelly Winter

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Dr Kelly Winter

Senior Research Fellow
Product Development and transfusion studies 
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Kelly’s research focuses on improving blood component quality and manufacturing efficiencies and extending the shelf-life of blood components.

Kelly received her PhD in Phytochemistry and Pharmacology and Graduate Certificate in Research Management from Southern Cross University, and previously worked at Southern Cross Plant Science screening for bioactive compounds.

Awards
  • Deans Merit Award (2000)
  • Harold Gunson Fellowship Award (2016)
  • Australian New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion travel grant (2012)
Member
  • Supervises and mentors junior research staff and students
  • Peer reviewer for numerous journals including Transfusion, Vox Sanguinis, and Transfusion Medicine

Key publications

Evaluating the quality of X-ray irradiated deglycerolized red blood cells stored in saline-adenosine-glucose-mannitol additive solution

Winter KM, Webb RG, Mazur E, Dennington PM, von Wielligh K, Marks DC
2025
Transfusion
65:1124-1131
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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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Increasing the time-to-freezing for clinical apheresis plasma meets quality specifications

Winter KM, Webb RG, Mazur E, Ismay S, Marinakis D, Marks DC
2023
Vox Sanguinis
118:993-996
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Red cells manufactured from lipaemic whole blood donations: Do they have higher haemolysis?

Winter KM, Webb RG, Marks DC
2022
Vox Sanguinis
117:1351-1359
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Understanding the effects of gamma-irradiation on potassium levels in red cell concentrates stored in SAG-M for neonatal red cell transfusion

Winter KM, Johnson L, Kwok M, Reid S, Alarimi Z, Wong JK, Dennington PM, Marks DC
2015
Vox Sanguinis
108:141-150
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