August 6, 2026
Congratulations Dr. Alisa Wolberg, the new Kenneth M. Brinkhous Distinguished Professor of Pathology, effective August 1, 2026. Dr. Brinkhous was a true tour-de-force. He was Chair of the Department of Pathology, spanning 4 decades (1946-1973). He created a major research program in thrombosis and hemostasis that established UNC as an international center of excellence for …
August 3, 2026
August 2026 Newsletter
July 24, 2026
Ana Sachetto PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Mackman’s lab, won an award for JTH Top Early Career Peer Reviewers! Ana Sachetto was also appointed as a Member on the ATVB Early Career Committee of the Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (American Heart Association). Congratulations Ana Sachetto!
July 24, 2026
Ana Sachetto PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Mackman’s lab, had a paper accepted in RPTH Journal. See article, “Circulating extracellular vesicle tissue factor activity is associated with DIC in two cohorts of patients with sepsis” here Invited commentary here Congratulations!
July 15, 2026
“A scalable high-throughput platform for the discovery of intracellular and extracellular regulators of platelet migration” paper by Matt Vander Ploeg (MD/PhD student in Bergmeier lab) was selected as the cover image for the current issue of Blood Advances. Read article here by: Matthew R. Vander Ploeg, Ansh Gulati, Matthew J. Flick, James E. …
July 9, 2026
Patrick Ellsworth, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and member of the Blood Research Center, receives K08 Award. Title: Cell surface localization of FVIII mimetic therapy NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Drs. Nigel Key and Mac Monroe are the primary mentors on the grant. Collaborators and supporting people include Sarah Shelton, PhD (Biomedical Engineering), …
May 11, 2026
Dr. Leiderman group has recently published two papers in Biophysical Journal. Han Cao first author paper: “Continuum and discrete modeling of binding-site distribution-mediated reactions on lipid surfaces” collaborative with Anirban Sen Gupta. Link to paper: https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(26)00187-6 A collaborative effort Dr. Leiderman was a part of as a co-mentor to the first author who is not …
May 11, 2026
Dr. Karin Leiderman’s grad student Leyi Zhang won a poster award at the 12th Symposium on Hemostasis. It was entitled: “Mathematical Modeling of Management of Postoperative Bleeding in Cardiac Surgery”. This work is also collaborative with Dr. Kenichi Tanaka.
May 11, 2026
Jamie Madrigal, previous student of Dr. Karin Leiderman, was awarded the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis Editor’s award. Here is the link to that: https://www.isth.org/news/726139/Journal-of-Thrombosis-and-Haemostasis-announces-2026-Editors-Awards-recipients.htm
April 30, 2026
May 2026 Newsletter
April 29, 2026
Matthew Vander Ploeg, a graduate student in BCBP and a member of the BRC in Dr. Bergmeier’s lab, published his first author manuscript in Blood Advances. The study describes the development of high-throughput platelet migration assay, facilitated by novel deep learning-based image analysis pipeline. Using this new platform, Matt was able to show that platelet …
April 28, 2026
Dr. Yohei Hisada delivered an invited talk during a plenary session at the International Conference on Thrombosis and Hemostasis Issues in Cancer (https://icthic.com/en). The title of the presentation was “Tissue Factor-Driven Coagulopathy and Bleeding in Acute Leukemia: Clinical and Preclinical Insights.”