Welcome to season 3 of Probably Platelets, the first ever podcast hosted by the UK Platelet Society. Your hosts, Alex, research from the University of Birmingham and Xenia, post-doctoral researcher from University of Birmingham, have a chat with platelets researchers to find more about their career journey, laugh about some of their mistakes, and never know, we'll probably talk about platelets.

In this episode we are joined by Emily Horner and Xenia Sawkulycz to discuss the Platelet Society Skills transfer grants. These are awards (up to £2000) to fund exchange, training and/or transfer or skills and technologies from one group to another for the development of platelet scientists. This includes visiting another lab (UK or oversees) or attending a training workshop.

Emily and Xenia discuss their experiences, what they learnt, the application process, and advice for anyone thinking of applying.

You can find more details on the Platelet society website:https://plateletsociety.co.uk/funding#tab-tb_kg2r093-3.

This episode was recorded in May 2026. We want to give a massive thanks to Emily and Xenia for providing us with their time.

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