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February 12, 2024
Silvio Antoniak, PhD awarded SOM Boost funding award
Dean’s Office will provide your proposal Crosstalk Between Coagulation and Inflammation in Coronavirus Infection with Boost funding. The Boost award will provide $25,000 to help sustain current project and obtain preliminary data during the resubmission and review process. Dr. Silvio Antoniak received a UNC School of Medicine Boost Grant to further investigate the recently in …
February 12, 2024
Steven Grover, PhD awarded SOM Boost funding award
Dean’s Office will provide proposal Regulation of Coagulation and Thrombosis by C1 Inhibitor with Boost funding. The Boost award will provide $22,771 to help sustain your project and obtain preliminary data during the resubmission and review process.
February 9, 2024
R01 awarded to Matthew Flick, PhD: Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD and Rafal Pawlinski, PhD are co-investigators
Notice of Award for a new R01 focused on the role of fibrinogen in thrombosis. The title is: “Novel mechanisms to limit thrombosis by decreasing fibrinogen or suppressing fibrin matrix formation”. The total funds for this award are: $2.9 million. Drs. Rafal Pawlinski and Wolfgang Bergmeier from the BRC are co-investigators.
February 8, 2024
Nature Cardiovascular Medicine publication, Dougald Monroe, PhD
Nature Cardiovascular Medicine publication written with our Duke colleague Dr. Ammon Fager. Title – Stopping the bleed when platelets don’t stick Journal – Nature Cardiovascular Research DOI – 10.1038/s44161-024-00421-3 View and download PDF
February 7, 2024
New MPI R01 awarded to Nigel Key, MD and Rafal Pawlinski, PhD
New MPI R01 awarded in the amount of $720,846 from the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) project title: Mechanisms of venous thrombosis and renal dysfunction in sickle trait. Abstract: This proposal will use both human blood samples from subjects who are carriers of the sickle cell gene (so-called ‘sickle cell trait’ or …
February 2, 2024
Yohei Hisada, PhD receives the Junior Faculty Development Award from the UNC Office of Provost
The Junior Faculty Development Awards are funded by IBM and R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. This award grants $10,000 to support scholarly pursuits over one calendar year. JUNIOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AWARDS FOR 2024 UNC Faculty Award Announcement
February 2, 2024
Recently published work in PNAS: Silvio Antoniak, PhD and Nigel Mackman, PhD
In the recently published work in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Dr. Antoniak’s and Dr. Mackman’s groups from the UNC Blood Research Center show that SARS-CoV-2 encodes antimicrobial peptides (xenoAMPs) which can form proinflammatory complexes. These complexes induced a proinflammatory and procoagulant phenotype in cells in vitro and in mice in vivo. …
February 1, 2024
A recent paper from Dr. Wolberg’s group was published in Blood
Read full article This paper, which was first-authored by former graduate trainee James Byrnes, investigated the relationship between coagulation factor XIII A and B subunits in circulation. Although these subunits are produced in different tissues, their data reveal a unique reciprocal regulatory mechanism in which each subunit determines the circulating half-life of the other subunit. …
January 31, 2024
Swati Sharma, PhD receives Myocarditis Foundation Award 2023 Fellowship Grant
Myocarditis Foundation Awards 2023 Fellowship Grant Myocarditis Foundation proudly awards 2023 Fellowship Grant to Dr. Swati Sharma of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill One of the 2023 Fellowship Grants was awarded to Dr. Swati Sharma, for her work on: “The Protective Role of Platelet Protease-activated Receptor4 (PAR4) in Coxsackievirus (CVB3) Myocarditis”. Dr. Sharma came to …