2025
- Honoring Ron Goebel: A Legacy of Love, Laughter, and Donation
- BBG Advanced Therapies and CELLforCURE Partner to Provide Transatlantic Manufacturing Solutions for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs)
- Living with Grief in the Fall holidays
- STB&T donates equipment to blood bank in Monterrey
- Remembrance Celebration brings together dozens of families
- STB&T partner wins national award for minority blood drives
- Get Rowdy, UTSA! Donate Blood & Save Lives
- September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
- Give a Pint for a Fright: 13th Floor
- Get Rowdy! Donate Blood & Score UTSA Tickets
- Red & White Ball fundraising efforts paying off
- Welcome Chris Callaway
- Northeast Donor Center opens in Live Oak
- CGT Wake Up Call To Rethink How Advanced Therapies Scale
- Your Blood Donation Could Earn You Cowboys Tickets
- The Blood Bank and the Future of Advanced Therapies
- How Potency Testing Can Delay Advanced Therapies
- Blood Shortage: Several factors are key to low blood supply
- Give Blood for a Movie Theatre Blockbuster Bundle
- Potency Assays: The Key to Scalable Advanced Therapies
- Individual and Collective Grief Journeys
- A Family of Giving: The Bonoans
- Closing the Access Gap in Sarcoma Treatment Through Cell Therapy
- Designing for Reality: A Lesson From Architecture – and Advanced Therapies
- Donate Blood, Help Kerr County Flood Victims
- Win concert tickets with South Texas Blood & Tissue
- Rethinking Cleanroom Dependence in Advanced Therapies to Deliver as Personalized, Scalable, and Accessible
- Take Pride in your Blood Donation at The Bonham Exchange Blood Drive
- Donate blood for a chance to win a Getaway trip
- Big Lou’s Pizza to honor founder, donors on World Blood Donor Day
- Could Gene and Cell Therapy be Built Like the Internet?
- Double Your Impact and Help Kids Go to Summer Camp
- Breaking the Bottleneck to Clear Access to Cell and Gene Therapy
- Rey Feo Honors STB&T with Cabrito Medal
- Tatiana Castillo’s Journey from Loss to Tissue Donation Advocacy
- Scott Jones to lead BioFest Invest panel
- Kaleidoscope of Grief
- Daniel Michael: Rooting for the Donor Team
- A Fond Farewell to Mary Dial
- BBG Advanced Therapies Launches First Mobile Leukapheresis Center
- The Road Behind the First Mobile Leukapheresis Center
- Reimagining Access to Advanced Cell Therapies
- Blue and green lights take over SATX for Donate Life Month
- Tariffs and a Changing World in Advanced Therapies
- Supply Chain Builds Resilience for Advanced Therapies
- Donate blood at a Final Four Slam Dunk Drive, see NCAA stars in action
- Setting Your Biotech Up for Success: How Electronic Batch Records Accelerate Advanced Therapy Access
- Can a Global Patient Registry Accelerate Access to Advanced Therapies?
- Meet Marty: Our first 100-gallon female donor
- Navigating the 2025 Biotech Funding Squeeze:
- How To Guide Patients Through Complexity: Evolving the Role of Patient Navigators in Advanced Therapies
- Meals on Wheels and South Texas Blood & Tissue team up
- How to Improve Patient Access to Advanced Therapies with Real-World Solutions
- The Advanced Therapies Innovation Gap: What’s Stalling Treatments from Reaching Patients?
- ‘Want to Get Away’ with South Texas Blood & Tissue
- A Blueprint for Breakthroughs
- Daniele Anderson’s story
- Grief: The Elephant in the Room
- Foundation board selects cause for 2025 Red & White Ball
- George Muller: Foundation Board Member
- Champions fore Charity – Socks it to Mondays with David Chancellor
- Driving fore Donors 2025
- 2025 Committee Openings
- Letter from Board Co-Chairs, Meredith & David Alvarez
- Let’s go, 210! UTSA rolls up sleeves for 210 Blood Drive
- Save lives and saddle up for the rodeo
- New Southeast Donor Center opens its doors
- Velico installs FrontlineODP™ Spray System in civilian blood center
- New South Texas Blood & Tissue Opens donor center on Southside
- San Antonio Goes Red for National Blood Donor Month
2024
- Donor families remember loved ones with Giving Tree ornaments
- New BioBridge Global Subsidiary to Support Development of Cell and Gene Therapies
- 2024 Red & White Ball: A Night of Celebration and Impact
- Save lives and feed families with the San Antonio Food Bank
- Mural Artist: Christina Sosa Noriega
- Roll Up, Donate, and Receive with Harley-Davidson
- Café Olé your day when you donate blood
- Donate blood, win BIG with an H-E-B gift card
- Give blood at 13th Floor for a spooky cause
- Sylmarie – Her story
- When Holidays are Hard
- Jordan Ford Mustang winner announced
- South Texans can aid victims of Hurricane Milton by donating platelets and blood
- R & D Analytical Development team finds a home
- Diverse Donations event a sweet success
- Remembrance Celebration helps families be heard
- Five millionth blood donation identified
- BioBridge Global dedicates new space for R&D Analytical Development Lab
- Give blood, see a San Antonio Futbol Club game
- Advanced therapies:
- Digital sign unveiled at BioBridge Global
- An inspiring legacy: Rowan and Naomi
- 50 for 50 Campaign
- 2025 Committee Opportunities
- Board Member Highlight – Ginny & Art Bennert
- Sickle cell disease and the community: A conversation
- Will yours be the 5 millionth blood donation?
- Event celebrates National Minority Donor Awareness Month
- Type O blood levels critically low in San Antonio
- BioBridge Global evolving to help build the future of healthcare
- Blood donors can win big this August:
- Blood shortages across Texas become critical
- Vacations and Grief
- Jose’s story
- Donate Life Month kicks off with flag-raising ceremony
- New Braunfels Donor Center celebrates grand reopening
- Score a stack of buttermilk pancakes when you donate blood
- Feeling the love
- BBG-developed system tests cancer treatments in a new way
- Champions fore Charity Update:
- Donor Pavilion Gets Dressed Up for Spring –
- Board Member Highlight: Faisal and Mila Khan
- City Council launches District Challenge to save lives in SATX
- Donors can stay cool and fresh with KODI cooler
- Iconic San Antonio buildings light up for Donate Life Month
- CEO Landon promotes BioBridge Global’s capabilities at Invest SA
- Blood donors can celebrate 50 years of saving lives with Fiesta Medal
- Losing a Pet Hurts too. Here’s how to Cope.
- Expanded cell therapy lab opens at BioBridge Global
- Jay’s Story
- Whole blood-derived platelets explored in Webinar
- BioBridge Global expands cell therapy testing laboratory
- Blood donations predicted to drop dramatically during spring break
- Blood donors can help “Double Your Impact” for Meals on Wheels
- Blood donation competition sparks longtime tradition
- Heroes In Arms celebrates emotional sixth anniversary
- Layla’s Story
- South Texas Blood & Tissue celebrates 50 years in the community
- Board Member Highlight: Laurie and Michael Kaplan
- 2024 Champions fore Charity
- Letter from Board Co-Chairs, Elizabeth & Scott McMillian
- Remembering a mother’s legacy: Teresa de La Cruz
- Suggested New Year’s Resolutions for Your Grief Journey
- Critical Need for Blood Donations following the Holidays
2023
- UTSA signs agreement with GenCure for cell therapy collaboration
- Apheresis Center performs first granulocyte collection
- Get Involved – Commit 4 Compassion
- Nicole Czelusta shares blood donation story with Foundation board
- Commit 4 Compassion challenge to help save lives
- Major Gifts Updates – October 2023
- STB&T, DreamWeek issue Commit 4 Compassion Challenge
- Big Hearts, Big City Gala a big success
- Navy Veteran Richard Riojas continues legacy as tissue donor
- BioBridge Global’s 2023 AABB Research Posters
- Bloodmobile on its way to a new life in Mexico
- Hurt and healing in the holidays
- Boo Crew saving lives this Halloween
- BBG helps state land major federal agency hub
- South Texas Blood & Tissue, The Gonzaba Foundation,and Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center “Double Your Impact”
- BioBridge Global working in the battle with cancer on multiple fronts
- Cord Blood Bank Alliance joins South Texas Blood & Tissue
- Meet our Champions
- August 2023: Foundation Board Member Spotlight
- Major Gifts Update – August 2023
- BioBridge Global CEO interviewed by Capital Analytics on healthcare and innovation
- New video, report shows BBG’s improved quality and digital records system through MasterControl
- Protected: Two Children, a Burst of Gunfire and the Year That Came After
- August is National Multiethnic Donor Awareness
- South Texas Blood & Tissue Implements New FDA Guidance for Assessing Blood Donor Eligibility
- UMC Lubbock Partnering with South Texas Blood & Tissue
- South Texas Blood & Tissue joins Cord Blood Bank Alliance from Be The Match BioTherapies
- Blood donors can ‘Double Your Impact’ with Communities in Schools through Aug. 15
- From the CEO
- Story Tellers and Story Catchers
- Greg’s Story
- South Texas Blood & Tissue presents the End Less Blood Summer Sweepstakes – the summer promotion that saves lives!
- Emergency preparedness agency recognizes South Texas Blood & Tissue
- Harlandale Senior helps spread the word about a ‘selfless, simple’ way to help others
- San Antonio Business Journal recognizes two BioBridge Global healthcare heroes
- San Antonio area school superintendents donate blood in honor of Uvalde
- Jewish American Heritage Month: Recognizing a pioneer in blood science
- ‘It’s a phenomenal time to be part of San Antonio.’ BBG leadership talks healthcare innovation at Invest: San Antonio
- One year after the mass shooting in Uvalde, South Texas Blood & Tissue recognizes importance of blood before tragedies
- Impact of Foundation funding for donor rooms and equipment show positive results
- May 2023: Foundation Board Member Spotlight
- Red & White Ball Kickoff
- Champions fore Charity – 2023
- Major Gifts Update – May 2023
- ‘Moms need a lot of blood.’ South Texas Blood & Tissue manager needed blood during emergency C-section delivery
- Donate Life Month ends, but lifesaving legacies continue
- ‘Access to blood when a patient needs it matters.’ South Texas Blood & Tissue leadership advocates for blood issues
- Biomedical entrepreneurs, investors tour BioBridge Global for BioFest Invest
- San Antonio City Council participates in SA Challenge blood drives to support patients, encourage community
- South Texas Blood & Tissue’s Medical Director presents on blood shortages and utilization
- Blood donors to receive special, Fiesta rewards for April donation
- BioBridge Global gives tour to Blood Centers of America
- BioBridge Global hosts regenerative medicine conference
- South Texas Blood & Tissue expands presence in Victoria to improve donor experience and access, support region’s growing demand for blood
- David’s Story
- Life Legacies
- The need for blood donations never takes a spring break
- February 2023: Foundation Board Member Spotlight
- South Texans attend major tissue donor family event
- <strong>Champions fore Charity</strong>
- Major Gifts Update – February 2023
- Letter from Board Chair Jeanne Bennett
- First responders reunited with Uvalde survivor
- Cooperation makes lifesaving whole blood program possible
- First female donors join Heroes in Arms program
- Uvalde shooting survivor meets blood donors who saved her life
- FDA removes blood donor deferrals for time spent in Europe
- Rebecca Goodwin’s Story
- Vinton Smith on quest to donate blood and platelets in all 50 states
- Grief in a New Year
- National Blood Donor Month celebrates saving lives
2022
- San Antonio donor honored at Rose Parade
- Blood and platelet donors urgently needed to support patients in community
- Season of Giving thanks donors for saving lives
- <strong>The Giving Tree Celebrates Lifesaving Donor Heroes </strong>
- Audra Taylor joins as Executive Director for Blood Operations at South Texas Blood & Tissue
- Board hears about fruits of their labors
- November 2022 Board Member Profile
- Double Your Impact Campaign
- Major gifts update – November 2022
- South Texas Blood & Tissue, San Antonio Food Bank want you to ‘Double Your Impact’
- Advanced Therapy New Focus for BioBridge Global
- Red & White Ball: Gala a success, thanks to your support and generosity
- Blood donors can provide double the impact of giving this holiday season
- William’s treatment has been delayed as blood, platelet demand outpaces donations
- Extraordinary demand for blood leads to critical shortages in South Texas
- Scott Jones named Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer at BioBridge Global
- REPROCELL and BioBridge Global sign Memorandum of Understanding to accelerate global manufacturing services using clinical iPSCs
- No trick, only treat to save lives this Halloween
- Blood donations gave teen Luke more time in his battle with leukemia
- Grief in the Holidays
- Muertos Fest
- Educator Extends Community Impact
- South Texas Blood & Tissue provides blood to help Florida blood centers
- Sickle Cell Awareness Month highlights need for diversity of blood donors
- Amazon Smile
- Major gifts update – September 2022
- Foundation, board member celebrate 20th anniversaries
- Labor Day Weekend Success
- Big Give SA
- September 2022 Foundation Board Member Spotlight
- Red & White Ball Update – September 2022
- South Texas Blood & Tissue Marks One-Year Anniversary of Blood Emergency Readiness Corps
- South Texas blood donors can take part in world record for blood donations
- How birth tissue donations can help people like Ruben
- San Antonio City Council sponsors summer blood drives as need for blood outpaces donations
- South Texans can participate in massive, national health program to change the future of healthcare
- Cancer Patients Need Blood Transfusions, Why?
- Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies and GenCure collaborate to advance cell and gene therapy manufacturing solutions
- August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month
- Individual and Collective Grief
- He shared his life with others
- BioBridge Global announces appointment of John Youngdahl as Chief Financial Officer
- South Texas Blood & Tissue opens second new donor center in 2022 to meet growing need
- South Texas Blood & Tissue to give ‘United for Uvalde’ T-shirts to donors
- Mayor Ron Nirenberg encourages blood donation during critical summer season
- Blood donors make a world of difference on World Sickle Cell Day
- World Blood Donor Day celebrates blood donors with free car wash
- Blood donors turn out by the hundreds to support Uvalde
- Victims of Uvalde Shooting Recieve Support from South Texas Blood & Tissue
- Roberto Esquivel, Art with a message
- South Texas Blood & Tissue joins large-scale ‘All of Us’ program
- Major gifts update – May 2022
- Blood Drive Support
- Pictorial Directory
- May 2022 Foundation Board Member Spotlight
- Red & White Ball Update – May 2022
- Champions fore Charity Results
- Orange Juice your way to a successful blood donation
- The Most Rare Blood Type is also Golden
- Type O Blood Donors Needed Immediately
- What’s the rarest blood type?
- Adrienne Mendoza: Taking on challenges
- BioBridge Global bids farewell to Elizabeth Waltman
- South Texas Blood & Tissue Apheresis Center achieves FACT accreditation
- National Donate Life Month
- His last act of service saved lives
- Fiesta and spring break cause blood donations, drives in area to drop dramatically
- Diagnosed with leukemia at 6 years old, nurses called Edui their “happiest patient”
- South Texas Blood & Tissue partners with Medline to host blood drive in Laredo
- Waltman receives THOR sword at retirement event
- Blood donation vs. plasma donation
- Phenomenal people have kept Villarreal in one place for over 40 years
- Your blood donation can help up to three patients
- Tax Credit for Blood Donors Considered in California
- Melissa Delbosque: A resolve to save lives
- So many need blood; so few donating
- SA District Challenge champion announced
- Boerne, TX opens South Texas Blood and Tissue Center
- Red & White Ball
- Pictorial Directory – 2022
- 2022 Champions fore Charity
- February 2022 Foundation Board Member Spotlight
- Letter from the Chair – Allison De Paoli
- Stem Cell Transplant Waiting Game
- Prehospital blood transfusion saves Scott
- The five D’s that keep the U.S. blood supply safe
- Timeline post-blood-donation
- Bexar County, San Antonio declare blood shortage emergency
- National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day
- Jose Casasola: Helping others is always important
- 5 things that take longer than a donation
- Latest COVID-19 surge leads to multiple blood drive cancellations, potential loss of donations
- Blood donor tattoo rocks ‘Texas Harry’
2021
- Can’t donate? Using Amazon Smile can help you still make a difference
- South Texas Blood & Tissue declares blood emergency
- Top 10 South Texas foods to eat to boost your iron
- Advanced therapies eyeing a steep upward curve
- How iron affects your blood donation
- BioBridge Global continues history of innovation with umbilical cord collection and processing under cGMP standards for further manufacture
- 2021 Red & White Ball helps raise funds for new blood donor centers
- Being a parent to a child with cancer
- Community Labs’ rapid growth helps schools return to normal
- Red and White Ball Update: Preregister
- November 2021 Foundation Board Member Spotlight
- Rise in auto accidents and other traumas strains South Texas blood supply
- Grief Rituals: Honoring Memories
- A giver to the very end
- Platelets and Blood Shortage, Surgeries Risk Being Postponed
- Postpartum Hemorrhage- Ashley’s Story
- Stem Cell Donor featured on ABC stations
- Foundation webinar shows journey of blood donation from donor to patient
- Flex While Donating
- Community Labs testing at Laredo ISD middle school
- Helipad Opens for Emergency Blood Needs
- Leukemia Journey: Mia
- East Side Community Embraces GenCure
- Community Labs expanding capabilities to 50,000 COVID-19 tests a day
- South Texas Blood & Tissue Center joins national emergency blood reserve
- Ewing Sarcoma Survivor Wins Gold
- San Antonio City Council announces ‘SA District Challenge’ blood drive winner
- Video: Your guide to a better blood donation
- South Texas Blood & Tissue outlines future of organization for Foundation board
- Phlebotomist wins Collections Team Member national award
- August 2021 Foundation Board Member Spotlight
- Red & White Ball update – August 2021
- Letter From Chairs Claire and Patrick Rouse
- Blood donations help leukemia patients like Greg
- San Antonio City Council sponsors summer blood drives as need for blood continues to outpace donations
- Phlebotomists do their part in the fight with COVID-19
- Ultimate act of selflessness
- The Spiraling Process of Grief
- When an infant needs a blood transfusion
- Why You Matter: The Need for Platelets
- Why You Matter: The Need for Type O Blood
- Thanks for the help, Gordon Hartman/Morgan’s Wonderland
- Thanks for the help, Northside Independent School District
- BioBridge Global, Vitrafy Life Sciences join forces to advance new cryopreservation technology
- Thanks for the help, Jordan Ford
- Thanks for the help, Sinclair Broadcast Group San Antonio
- Research & Development: Many paths, two guiding principles
- Myths and facts about giving blood ‘one more time’
- Laura
- Multiple factors put South Texas blood supply at risk, doctors say
- Lillian is healthy again, thanks to donation of a new heart valve
- Testing strategies and custom assay development for cell and cell-based therapies
- Surge in highway travel over Memorial Day weekend raises concern over low blood supply
- Donating blood? Drink plenty of water
- Red & White Ball Kickoff
- 2019 Red & White Ball bus reveal
- Ruiz’s ‘miracle story’ inspires him to advocate for blood donations
- Why we ask what we ask on the blood donor questionnaire
- ‘It still found my son’: Survived cancer, beat COVID-19, giving back plasma
- The importance of client-lab collaboration
- Manny Ruiz
- Foundation webinar panelists talk about organization providing medical advances and therapies during pandemic
- Her life gave hope to people waiting for a transplant
- Tissue team tops nation in femoral vein recovery
- Alamo Quarry Market shines for Donate Life Month
- Kimberly Monroe: Called to action, educate with compassion
- Developing Risk-Based Testing Strategies for Advanced Therapies
- Additional 200 blood donors a day sought to meet growing needs of South Texas patients
- Kaleidoscope of Grief
- National Donate Life Month
- Teen blood donors more likely to join organ registry, study shows
- South Texas Blood & Tissue Center donor rooms to remain open through holiday weekend to meet urgent need for blood
- Amy
- Community leaders collaborate to change the odds for patients in need
- San Antonio’s 120-gallon-plus blood donors encourage others to give
- Olsen Family bloodmobile joins fleet
- Q and A: Getting the vaccine doesn’t prevent you from giving blood
- Soaring demand for blood, falling collections put South Texas patients at risk
- Thank you, South Texas
- South Texas blood donations increasing, but large deficit remains
- South Texas Blood & Tissue Center extending hours to make up nearly 3,000-donation deficit
- Metro Health declares blood emergency
- Severe weather closes blood donor rooms, forces cancellation of drives
- COVID study in UK shows high levels of antibodies up to six months after infection
- Get ready for the deep freeze in South Texas: Give blood
- Journal examines successful launch, expansion of whole-blood transfusion program in South Texas
- Blood & Tissue Center Foundation’s 2021 Red & White Ball to help raise funds for a new donor room at the South Texas Blood & Tissue Center
- Charles Drew: Blood banking pioneer
- Kelly
- Note from Foundation Chairs Claire & Patrick Rouse
- COVID-19 becomes a personal fight for councilmember Rocha Garcia
- Join the organ and tissue donor registry, earn a ‘hero’s heart’
- Our support for the community during COVID-19
- David and Cindy Schneider
- 2021 Champions fore Charity
- Local patients at risk due to severe blood shortages
- Health benefits of giving blood
- 2021 ‘SA District Challenge’ blood drive champion announced
- Yvonne: A different path
- Secondary Losses: The aftershocks of losing a loved one
- Joe Villanueva Jr.
- San Antonio Twins Give Blood Together
- What happens to my blood donation?
- San Antonio City Council sponsors 2021 ‘SA District Challenge’ blood drives
- Legacy Garden provides a place for memorials
- Amy’s Ice Creams helps out South Texas Blood & Tissue Center
- QualTex COO Interviewed by Phacilitate on Testing and Assay Strategies
- QualTex Laboratories adds Ortho Diagnostics VITROS® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay
- QualTex Launches Cellular Therapy Testing Services
- GenCure joins with Sentien Biotechnologies, RoosterBio on $2.4 million contract
- Dez
- Noah Adams
- “Laboratory in a box”: Community Labs rapidly ramps up COVID-19 testing
2020
- Rudolph Lizcano Jr.: Giving to honor others
- COVID-19 vaccination will not delay blood donations
- Mayor challenges community to save lives with a blood donation
- Who needs blood transfusions?
- Ron White: 125 gallon blood donor
- Kami & Kyra
- Join Joe Posada for first-ever Couch Potato Ball
- Blood centers across nation report critical shortages
- Beat the flu and help patients, too: Get a flu shot
- Study shows broad impact of healthcare, biosciences industry in San Antonio
- Healing During the Holidays
- David McCoy
- Blood centers: U.S. facing critical shortage
- Ongoing blood shortage takes toll on most at-risk patients
- Quick Community Labs launch possible only through local cooperation
- City of San Antonio expands COVID-19 testing to asymptomatic individuals at City’s no cost test sites
- How can I find out my blood type?
- Drastic decline in marrow donor registrations leave blood cancer patients searching for matches
- Scientists struggle to develop artificial blood
- Pioneering San Antonio COVID-19 Lab to Test Thousands of People Per Day to Create COVID-19 Safety Zones
- Tattoos and piercings don’t disqualify donors
- Blood supply drops to half
- About the artist: Jesse Amado
- What medications can I take if I want to give blood?
- FDA changes status of convalescent plasma program
- ‘Old’ science leads in fight against COVID-19
- ‘Voices of Hope’ webinar educates community about COVID-19 convalescent plasma
- William Berlin: Living on in others through gifts of life
- The Collective Grief of COVID-19
- Setting a goal: Make 24 donations in a year
- Grief Support Welcome
- Local leukemia patient inspires community to join marrow registry
- Community partners unite to promote plasma donations at South Texas Blood & Tissue Center
- Blood donors with low pulse rates report fewer negative reactions
- San Antonio doctor encourages recovered COVID-19 patients to donate plasma
- The Big Give
- Voices of Hope Series
- Holli and Greg Brunsman
- About the artist: F.L. ‘Doc’ Spellmon
- Independent U.S. blood centers lead way in convalescent plasma donations
- Doctor treating COVID-19 patients encourages convalescent plasma donors
- How does blood regenerate?
- Why do you charge hospitals for blood I give for free?
- STBTC testing for body’s reaction to COVID-19
- GenCure Biomanufacturing Facility is now operational
- GenCure Biomanufacturing Facility on Track to be Fully Operational in First Quarter of 2020
- BioBridge Global Adds Two Industry Leaders to Regenerative Medicine Advisory Board
- GenCure Announces Breakthrough First Run of 80-liter Bioreactor