Peter Jaworski on LinkedIn: Hamilton seeks to become ‘Paid-Plasma Free Zone’ to stop ‘for-profit’… (2024)

Adonis Georgiadis, the Minister of Health for Greece, announced today that his government will introduce a bill to change the regulations to permit more plasma collection (using donor compensation). Thank you Alexander Skouras and Yannis Kalantzakis for giving me an opportunity to thank the Minister in person.

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A great deal of fun to talk about blood plasma with students like these, and a co-teacher like Kimberly Krawiec This is especially so when you have a chance to have visitors like Oksana Muliarchuk, Maarten Van Baelen, Peter O'Leary, and Tammy Black who were gracious enough to discuss their views and experiences in the classroomThanks for the memories UVA Law, and here’s hoping we get to do it all over again next year.

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Great to have Maarten Van Baelen from PPTA Europe and Peter O'Leary from the European Blood Alliance join my class for a spirited discussion about the future of plasma collection in Europe. While Europe has had to rely on American plasma collections to make up for their plasma collection shortfalls, there is now significant awareness of this problem and dedicated people like Maarten and Peter who work to try to improve collections within the EU. While they disagree on how best to do this, they both agree that the EU needs to collect much more plasma. Thank you both for making the time, the students really appreciated it.

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Did you know Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom don’t collect enough plasma to meet the needs of their patient communities?It’s been a decade since one of them did.Are you curious about current and future demand for immunoglobulin? Wondering about whether the costs of plasma collection in the U.S. have gone up or down (and by how much)? Worried about the impact of the U.S. economic situation on plasma collection?Do you want to stay up-to-date on all the blood plasma news around the world (but mostly in Canada)?Have I got a Substack for you! Each quarter, I will give you a rundown of the latest reports from the Big Three plasma collectors (CSL Behring, Grifols, and Takeda), along with occasional others (like Kedrion in this one) and share some charts from select countries on plasma collection and self-sufficiency for immunoglobulin. Each time, I’ll also cover some of the news from around the world on plasma, as well as peer-reviewed publications and presentations as well.If this sounds interesting to you, please take a look at my latest Substack and consider subscribing.

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Great to have Elaine Perlman join my classes today to discuss the ModifyNOTA.org effort, share some insights on leadership (channel a Silverback Gorilla and Pippi Longstocking), and tell us more about what a kidney donation is like and its effects. (The effort is an attempt to pass legislation that would offer a refundable $50,000 tax credit over five years for anyone who chooses to be a kidney donor. I support the effort and am listed as a supporter on the website. Should it pass, it is likely to save thousands of lives and billions of tax dollars).

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Had a chance to present on why paying people to donate plasma is a morally good idea, actually at Dalhousie University in Halifax on Thursday, and at Toronto Metropolitan University earlier today. Plasma is once again all over the news in Canada, and so the talks (which were planned a long time ago) turned out to be really timely. I also had a chance to visit the future location of a Grifols plasma centre (that is still branded as Canadian Plasma Resources) as well as snap a photo in front of a Canadian Blood Services blood collection centre in Halifax. Thank you to Darcy Shannon for going so far out of your way to give me a tour of Halifax, attending my talk, and driving me to the airport. I really appreciate it. Thanks also to the good folks in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University, and the Ted Roger’s School of Management at The Toronto Metropolitan University (especially Chris MacDonald) for hosting me.

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I was quoted in this CBC story about the Grifols partnership with Canadian Blood Services which will see compensated plasma donations in the province of Ontario.Here’s an excerpt:“He said paid clinics could help Canada become more self-sufficient.Jaworski said the U.S. supplies 65 to 68 per cent of the plasma used to manufacture therapies globally."Canada has been around 80 per cent dependent on plasma collected in the U.S. since at least 2012," he said."We've depended on people who donate plasma in the U.S. to companies like Grifols, where they are paid for their plasma donation."

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A great group of students came out to see me speak at SMU last week, including 11 from the University of Central Arkansas.Thanks for having me!

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Giving a talk tomorrow at SMU’s Cox School of Business, which gave me a chance to finally tour a Proesis Biologics, Inc. plasma center.Thank you to Brittney, who was a wonderful tour guide and to Kristopher Jonas for letting me do this on very short notice. You’ve got some great people working for you who know how to make everyone (especially the donors but also professors) feel special

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