June 5, 2025
Read more on this Case Study An 8-year-old female with sickle cell disease (SCD), hemoglobin SS genotype, global developmental delay, and pica established care shortly after moving from out of state. The patient and her family had been living in a weathered house. The child’s caregiver reported a recent history of weakness in the right …
June 5, 2025
Dr. Alisa Wolberg received 2nd year of NIH R01 for “Interdisciplinary approach to elucidate modifiers of bleeding phenotype in factor XI deficiency”. More information
June 5, 2025
Dr. Matthew Flick received another year of funding from UVA “Novel mechanism underlying fibrinogen biogenesis in the endoplasmic reticulum”, an NIH funded project. NIH RePorter
May 5, 2025
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April 7, 2025
Swati Sharma has been awarded an Early Career Travel Award to attend the ISTH meeting in Washington, DC, June 21-25, 2025. Each year, the ISTH Congress Scientific Committee rewards abstracts of outstanding quality and provides the submitting author with a Travel Award to attend the ISTH Congress. Three categories of Travel Award are distributed: Early …
April 7, 2025
Alisa S. Wolberg, Ph.D. gave The Dr. William Bell Lecture in Hematology at Johns Hopkins University March 31, 2025. Dr. Wolberg’s lecture was entitled “Venous thromboembolism: fibrinogen, factor XIII, and new potential targets.” Dr. William R. Bell (1935-2013) was an internationally acclaimed hematologist and a professor and researcher at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. During Dr. …
April 3, 2025
Ana Sachetto, PhD, is now a co-chair of the International Postdoc Alliance of the UNC Postdoctoral Association. The University of North Carolina Postdoctoral Association (PDA) is a peer-led volunteer organization dedicated to addressing the needs and concerns of all UNC postdocs. PDA works closely with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs to provide resources for professional development, generate …
March 21, 2025
Three BRC Labs Collaborate to study Sickle Cell Trait: In a recently published study, three BRC groups (Key, Pawlinski and Kasztan labs) performed an in-depth study of venous thrombosis and chronic kidney disease in heterozygous Townes sickle mice as a model of human sickle cell trait. The authors suggest that the mouse model can be …
March 21, 2025
Yohei Hisada, PhD, appointed as an Associate Editor for Thrombosis Research Thrombosis Research is an international journal with a goal of rapid dissemination of new information on thrombosis, hemostasis, and vascular biology to advance science and clinical care. The journal publishes peer-reviewed original research, along with reviews, editorials, and opinions and critics. Both basic and clinical studies are published. Publication …
February 3, 2025
Kadri Kangro, PhD, working in the lab of Dr. Alisa Wolberg, was awarded the 2024 Aniara Diagnostica Coagulation Research Grant for $10,000.
January 29, 2025
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, …
January 23, 2025
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