Honorary Members
The Honorary Fellowship is a recognition to those who have made a distinguished service to the association and a remarkable contribution in the plasma field. The Honorary fellow members are appointed for lifetime, by invitation from the IPFA Executive Board.
Vincenzo De Angelis, one of the leading lights in European Transfusion Medicine, has been appointed as a lifelong member of the International Plasma and Fractionation Association (IPFA). Vincenzo has recently retired from the Board of IPFA after a distinguished tenure representing the Centro Nazionale Sangue (CNS) (Italian National Blood Centre), which he headed from 2020-2025. This position crowned his long
Takehiko Iijima has been a member of the IPFA Board representing Japanese Blood Products Organisation, the Japanese fractionator, since October 2017, when he joined the Board meeting in San Diego. Since his appointment, he has not missed one of the meetings, held about twice a year. His journeys might have been swift, but Ta-Ke was always there. IPFA really appreciated his contribution to