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Matthew Flick, PhD and Alisa Wolberg, PhD of the UNC Blood Research and faculty within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have been awarded a $2.3 million, 4-year R01 grant from the NIH-NHBLI to investigate the mechanisms by which the plasminogen activation system and the blood clotting protein fibrinogen affect the pathogenesis of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2401 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bloodresearchcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1089\/2020\/01\/Matthew_Flick-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2503 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bloodresearchcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1089\/2020\/01\/Alisa_Wolberg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"186\" \/>The is a Multiple Principle Investigator (MPI) award obtained in collaboration with Dr. Lisa Gralinski, a faculty member of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Department of Epidemiology.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is caused by the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus and variants that have infected over 200 million people worldwide, has resulted in over 640,000 deaths in the U.S. This research program directed by Drs. 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Matthew Flick, PhD and Alisa Wolberg, PhD of the UNC Blood Research and faculty within the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have been awarded a $2.3 million, 4-year R01 grant from the NIH-NHBLI to investigate the mechanisms by which the plasminogen activation system and the blood clotting protein fibrinogen affect the pathogenesis of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bloodresearchcenter\/2021\/08\/r01-awarded-to-matthew-flick-phd-and-alisa-wolberg-phd\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about R01 Awarded to Matthew Flick, PhD and Alisa Wolberg, PhD\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15383,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R01 Awarded to Matthew Flick, PhD and Alisa Wolberg, PhD | UNC Blood Research Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/bloodresearchcenter\/2021\/08\/r01-awarded-to-matthew-flick-phd-and-alisa-wolberg-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"R01 Awarded to Matthew Flick, PhD and Alisa Wolberg, PhD | UNC Blood Research Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Drs. 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