A/Prof Marks has led the Product Development research team at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood since 2008. She holds an adjunct appointment with the School of Medicine at the University of Sydney. Denese has held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Vienna, the University of Melbourne and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. A/Prof Marks’ current research focuses on improving blood processing technologies and component storage, investigating donor attributes that may influence blood component quality, and clinical trials of new blood products. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and is a section editor for ISBT’s Vox Sanguinis journal. She is the Chair of the ISBT Blood Components Working Party and the ISBT Regional Director for the Western Pacific, as well as a Team Leader of the Conventional Components Team in the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) Collaborative. She currently holds research grants from NHRMC, ARC, ANZSBT and the MRFF.