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Duke-UNC CTSA Consortium Collaborative Translational Research Grant Application Chosen for Funding.

January 11, 2016
The Mackman Lab grant application entitled “Targeting the Intrinsic Pathway of Coagulation to Prevent Venous Thrombosis in Pancrea” was chosen to receive funding in December, 2015. The Duke Translational Research Institute (DTRI) and the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Science Institute (NC TraCS) are academic homes of the NIH Clinical...

UNC receives $10 million commitment for art collection, heart disease research

November 11, 2013
Dr. Hugh A. “Chip” McAllister Jr. of Houston has made a $10 million commitment to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that will include a collection of nearly 50 works of art for the Ackland Art Museum and expand an endowment dedicated to heart disease research at the...

UNC and the American Heart Association celebrate a 40-year Partnership

November 11, 2013
UNC Cardiovascular Medicine and the American Heart Association gather to celebrate their 40-year partnership with a tour of UNC’s research facilities Click to read more…

Duke and UNC to take JCI helm

November 11, 2013
Beginning in March 2012, Duke and UNC faculty will take the editorial helm of the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI). Click to read more…

Owens wins multi-year “Pathway to Independence” K99/R00 grant award

November 11, 2013
Congratulations to A. Phil Owens, III, PhD, a post-doctoral trainee in the Mackman lab at the UNC McAllister Heart Institute. With this award, Dr. Owens will have support to transition from a mentored research environment with Dr. Nigel Mackman to an independent laboratory setting. Dr. Owens’ research focuses on abdominal...

Benefits of statin therapy may extend beyond lowering lipids

November 11, 2013
A study led by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine has identified a molecular pathway that leads to the formation of abnormal blood clots. They turned it off using a popular class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins. Click to read more…

Mackman to deliver Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis

November 11, 2013
Nigel Mackman, Ph.D., will deliver the Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis at the 2009 American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Sessions in November. Click to read more…

Mackman appointed Director of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute

November 11, 2013
The School of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Nigel Mackman, PhD, FAHA, as the new Director of the UNC McAllister Heart Institute (MHI). Click to read more…

UNC researchers receive $8.2-million grant to study the role of coagulation in pathology of sickle cell disease

November 11, 2013
A multi-disciplinary team of basic and clinical scientists from the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine has received a five-year, $8.2-million grant from the NIH-NHLBI to study the role of coagulation in the pathology of sickle cell disease. Kenneth Ataga, MD, Nigel Key, MB, ChB, Nigel Mackman, PhD,...

Mackman awarded $1.5-million grant from NIH-NHLBI

November 11, 2013
Nigel Mackman, PhD, John Parker Distinguished Professor of Hematology/Oncology and Director of the McAllister Heart Institute, was awarded a $1.5-million, four-year grant from the NIH-NHLBI to study the role of the thrombin-PAR1 pathway in viral infection. Click to read more…