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Nigel Key, MB, ChB, FRCP has been awarded a 5-year, $2.2 million T32 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Now closely aligned with the benign hematology research areas of focus in the Blood Research Center (hemostasis, thrombosis and sickle cell disease), the program will continue to recruit...

UNC Blood Research Center member Stephan Moll, MD is a coauthor on a paper published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. The article, Risk of recurrence in women with venous thromboembolism related to estrogen-containing contraceptives: Systematic review and meta-analysis” provides data showing that women with DVT or PE associated...

Steven Grover, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nigel Mackman, has been selected to receive a Fellow to Faculty Scholar Award from the American Society of Hematology. The prestigious ASH Scholar Awards provide financial support to fellows and junior faculty with dedicated careers in hematology research, as they...

    UNC BRC Faculty members Dr. Erica Sparkenbaugh, Dr. Rafal Pawlinski, and Dr. Nigel Key are highlighted in a Photo Essay called “Magnificent Magnification” in the UNC Research newsletter, Endeavors. The image is a scanning electron micrograph of a blood clot from a patient with sickle cell disease. https://endeavors.unc.edu/magnificent-magnification/

Brandi Reeves, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, was awarded a 2-year Hemostasis & Thrombosis Research Society Mentored Research Award to evaluate the role of hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF) in myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN)-associated thrombosis.  Rafal Pawlinski, Phd, and Nigel Key, MBBS CHB FRCP, will serve as mentors for the project. Thrombosis is...

Published works from Jennifer Newman, MSPT; UNC Hemophilia Treatment Center Physical therapy within US HTCs: Amulticentre survey of utilization, practice patterns and pain management approaches. Read publication in Haemophilia

Erica Sparkenbaugh, Research Assistant Professor in the Blood Research Center and Division of Hematology will give a talk entitled “The Role of Thrombin and PAR-1 in Microvascular Stasis in Sickle Cell Disease” to the North American Vascular Biology Organization in an Online Symposium on Thrombosis in Vascular Occlusive Disorders. More...

UNC Blood Research Center member Dougald Monroe, PhD is a coauthor on a paper published in Nature Communications. The article, Efficacy and safety of next-generation tick transcriptome-derived direct thrombin inhibitors, provides data on a new, safer anticoagulant. This anticoagulant is derived by making directed modifications to the sequence of a...

Publication News! “Hypofibrinogenemia with preserved hemostasis and protection from thrombosis in mice with a Fga truncation mutation” Woosuk Steve Hur, PhD of the Flick Laboratory is the first author of a manuscript accepted for publication in Blood In this collaborative study involving several UNC BRC labs (Flick, Bergmeier and Wolberg), Hur et...

Congratulations to Yi Yang, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Flick Laboratory! American Pancreatic Association has selected Yi Yang, PhD for the APA 2021 Young Investigator Award! The review committee was impressed by his pancreas research and will promote his professional growth at the APA 2021 Annual Meeting.    ...

Dr. Silvio Antoniak is part of a multidisciplinary investigator team on a newly funded collaborative NIH-NIEHS R01 under the lead of PI James C. Bonner (NCSU) and investigators Dr. Christine K. Payne and Dr. Loretta G. Que both at Duke University. Project Narrative: Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are engineered nanoparticles...

Alisa S. Wolberg, PhD, has been selected to deliver the Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in November, 2021. The Sol Sherry Lectureship honors the founder of the original AHA Council on Thrombosis. The Sherry Lecture is one of three Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and...