Sanquin is a not-for-profit organisation that provides blood supplies and transfusion medicine, in a manner that meets the most stringent quality, safety and efficiency requirements. The foundation provides products and services, carries out research and provides education.
Sanquin has over 3000 employees in the Netherlands.
Sanquin Reagents
Sanquin Reagents is part of the Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation in the Netherlands. It is among the first manufacturers of blood group and immune reagents. By virtue of its research facilities and diagnostic laboratories, Sanquin developed a broad range of blood group and immune reagents, including several innovative products for diagnostic use and for fundamental and clinical research.
Blood grouping reagents are essential tools for diagnostic laboratories specialised in serology. The broad range of reagents developed by Sanquin Reagents are used in several serological tests, especially focused on red blood cells and platelets.
• Cellbind is Sanquin’s immunofixation column technique
• PeliPIP is a software program for the identification of red cell antibodies
• A broad range of monoclonal reagents for typing rare blood groups
• Pelicontrol: a whole blood control for use in all manual and automated typing and screening techniques
• MASPAT kit for platelet crossmatching in microplates
Cellbind immunofixation column technology
for screening and identification of unexpected red cell antibodies
Magister is a fully automated blood bank system that will automate all routine testing procedures. The system is designed to utilize Cellbind cards in combination with reagents from Sanquin. With one universal Cellbind card all types of serology testing can be performed: blood group typing, cross-matching, DAT, antibody screening and identification.
