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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kadri Kangro, PhD, working in the lab of Dr. Alisa Wolberg, was awarded the 2024 Aniara Diagnostica Coagulation Research Grant for $10,000.

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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,...