
1 week ago
Dr. Kadri Kangro was awarded the 2024 Aniara Diagnostica Coagulation Research Grant
Dr. Kadri Kangro, working in the lab of Dr. Alisa Wolberg, was awarded the 2024 Aniara Diagnostica Coagulation Research Grant for $10,000.
The UNC Blood Research Center (BRC) was established to promote interdisciplinary research in non-malignant blood disorders across UNC. It will seek to advance the work in the following specific areas.
One in four of the US population will succumb to a terminal thrombotic event, such as: myocardial infarction, stroke, or venous thromboembolism.
Basic science discoveries have paved the way towards better prophylactic and therapeutic approaches to thrombosis. However, a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying thrombosis and prevention without any risk of bleeding remains an unmet need. The BRC seeks to investigate potential approaches to both aims.
UNC is a world leader in hemophilia, from the development and administration of the first coagulation factor VIII concentrate to the role of the Chapel Hill dog colonies of the Francis Owen Blood Research Center in the pre-clinical testing of protein and gene therapies. The BRC aims to address the broad challenges that remain in numerous other inherited and acquired bleeding disorders.
Sickle cell disease affects approximately 100,000 Americans but accounts for an estimated 300,000 births worldwide every year, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian sub-continent.
Compared to many other areas of medicine, the development of impactful therapies in sickle cell disease remains inadequate. We will continue to expand our research efforts to this under-served patient population into the future.
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1 week ago
Dr. Kadri Kangro, working in the lab of Dr. Alisa Wolberg, was awarded the 2024 Aniara Diagnostica Coagulation Research Grant for $10,000.
2 weeks ago
Megan Perkins awarded 2 year pre-doctorate AHA fellowship entitled, “The Role of Fibrin in Influenza A virus-induced Lung Injury.” The award is to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising students who are matriculated in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree training programs and who intend careers as scientists, physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists, …
3 weeks ago
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