Tamir Kanias is an associate investigator at Vitalant Research Institute (VRI) and an associate clinical professor at the Department of Pathology, University of Colorado, Denver. He earned his Ph.D. degree in laboratory medicine and pathology from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Dr. Kanias specializes in red blood cell biology and hemolysis in transfusion medicine. He is a principal investigator and co-investigator on multiple national and international programs aimed at advancing transfusion safety and efficacy including NHLBI’s Recipient Epidemiology and Donor Evaluation Study (REDS) programs (REDS-III RBC-Omics and REDS-IV-P) and the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative.

Current Positions

Associate Investigator, VRI; Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 

Education & Training

B.S., Biological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv Israel 

M.S., Aquaculture, Hebrew University, Israel

Ph.D., Medical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

Publications

National Library of Medicine Biography 

Google Scholar Profile