Bruce Ritchie is an Associate Professor of Haematology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where
he is active in both clinical and basic research. His clinical interests include bleeding disorders,
thrombotic disorders, primary immunodeficiency, hereditary angioedema, hemoglobinopathies, porphyria and
blood borne pathogens.
He has developed specialty clinics in Edmonton to provide comprehensive care
including home treatment with blood products to these groups. He is intimately involved in surveillance
of the blood system in Canada; he chairs the committee which oversees the Canadian Haemophilia
Assessment
and Resource Management information System (CHARMS), a national program to track blood clotting products
used in patient homes.
He is principal Investigator of the Blood Borne Pathogens Project and has built a
medium size biobank as a proof of concept for a larger automated biobank. He runs a dozen clinical
research
projects in addition to the Blood Borne Pathogens Surveillance project, including regulatory trials for
the pharmaceutical industry, and investigator initiated trials. His research laboratory works on tissue
archiving, genomic discovery, cryopreservation, use of ink jet printers to print biomaterials and cells
and development of technical fixes to increase throughput in the biobank. He was on the Governance
oversight committee of the BC BioLibrary and is the main driver behind the Canadian Biosample Repository
in Edmonton Alberta; this facility provides efficient and robust biosample processing, management,
storage
and retrieval infrastructure.