January 15, 2025
Mofi Obadina was awarded a grant through the Foundation for Women & Girls with Blood Disorders (FWGBD) to support her project on Hypoxia and Angiogenesis in Pregnant Women with Sickle Cell Disease. The grant is for 1 year period (February 1, 2025, through January 31, 2026 ). The FWGBD Annual Research Award was established to support a research …
January 8, 2025
Steve Hur, PhD awarded the NORC P&F Award. The primary objective is to support the development of innovative research in nutrition and obesity. Pilot awards are designed for researchers to collect preliminary data that supports a grant application for independent research support and published work. The UNC NORC will award pilot grants of up to $40,000 …
December 13, 2024
Patrick Ellsworth, MD, publishes an invited review for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis for their “JTH in Clinic” series. The review discusses what has come to be called the “UNC Protocol” around the country for how we treat acquired hemophilia A. His group has published multiple original articles on the topic of acquired hemophilia, …
December 13, 2024
Award Program Type: Postdoctoral Fellowship Title of Project: Regulation and significance of the extended-closed conformation of the platelet AIIbB3 integrins The Award begins 01/01/2025, and has been approved at the level of funding indicated below: Period 1 Start Date: 01/01/2025, End Date: 12/31/2025, Total: $77,084.00 Period 2 Start Date: 01/01/2026, End Date: 12/31/2026, Total: $79,556.00 …
December 4, 2024
Nigel Key MD presented at Hematology/Oncology Grand Rounds at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian Hospital on November 26. The title of his talk was ‘Complications of sickle cell trait: from epidemiology to bench studies’
November 20, 2024
Robert Lee, PhD won Best Oral Presentation award at the 19th International Symposium on Blood Substitutes for his talk entitled “Interpretation of platelet signaling defects in Thromboelastography”
November 15, 2024
Yohei Hisada PhD awarded ISTH SSC small grant. The International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) is dedicated to transformative scientific discovery and standardized clinical practices, as well as the education of physicians, scientists and allied health professionals, globally. ISTH prioritizes this commitment by providing funding to support and advance innovative projects of the Scientific …
November 6, 2024
Alisa S. Wolberg, PhD presented the 2024 J. Evan Sadler Lectureship at Washington University in St. Louis. Her talk was entitled, “Venous Thrombosis and Factor XIII: Linking Biochemical Mechanisms to Novel Therapeutic Strategies”
November 6, 2024
Nigel Mackman PhD, John C. Parker Distinguished Professor of Medicine, gives keynote speech at University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center Symposium. On Monday September 23rd, Nigel Mackman gave his speech, “Mechanisms of Cancer- Associated Thrombosis and Bleeding: Focus on Tissue Factor- Positive Extracellular Vesicles” Read more here
October 31, 2024
November 2024 Newsletter
October 24, 2024
The publication entitled “Lessons Learned from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute COVID-19 Clinical Trials” describes the process, barriers and successes in the rapid implementation of medical interventional clinical trials addressing morbidity and mortality related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Click here to read
September 20, 2024
Raj Kasthuri, MBBS, professor in the UNC Division of Hematology and director of the UNC HHT Center of Excellence, and a team of researchers published their study evaluating the safety and efficacy of pomalidomide for the treatment of Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasias in the New England Journal of Medicine. Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasias (HHT) is an inherited …