August 20, 2022
Matthew Flick, PhD was recently awarded a NIH U01 grant, which is part of the Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) Stromal Reprogramming Consortium (PSRC). This is an MPI award that Dr. Flick received with collaborators Bumsoo Han, PhD at Purdue University and Melissa Fishel, PhD at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The title of the …
July 28, 2022
Drs. Raj Kasthuri and Yara Park of the 黑料网 BRC, along with multiple alumni of the 黑料网 hematology and transfusion medicine fellowships, co-authored a multi-institutional investigation into the role of race in the response of TTP patients to rituximab that has been accepted for publication in Blood. The study included 645 TTP patients from …
July 26, 2022
The focus of the grant is to investigate red blood cell alloimmunization risk using the REDS-III databases. Red blood cell (RBC) alloimmunization is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in transfusion and pregnancy settings, resulting in hemolytic reactions and other adverse sequelae such as hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn. Alloimmunization occurs in …
July 22, 2022
Dr. Patrick Ellsworth has been awarded the聽Access to Insight 2022 Basic Research Grant, totaling 63,000 Euros! This was a competitive grant with international applicants. Dr. Ellsworth’s project is titled 鈥淢echanistic Investigation of Factor IX/IXa Synergy with Emicizumab鈥� and he will be working with Dr. Monroe here of the BRC and Dr. Maureane Hoffman at Duke …
July 22, 2022
Effective July 1, 2022, Dr. Alisa Wolberg began service as the new Chair of the Hemostasis, Thrombosis, Blood Cells, and Transfusion study section of the NHLBI. She will serve a 2-year term in this role. Congratulations, Dr. Wolberg!
June 16, 2022
“A gene therapy clinical trial for hemophilia shows promise and could be approved by the FDA later this year 鈥� a feat made possible, in part, by 黑料网-Chapel Hill鈥檚 70-year-old research program.” Click here to read the article.
June 3, 2022
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May 11, 2022
Research performed at the BRC will be well represented at the 30th Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis meeting in London, UK from July 9-13. A list of scheduled oral presentations and posters is included at this link.
May 4, 2022
Erica Sparkenbaugh, PhD, has been awarded a NC TRaCS $2K Pilot Grant for her study 鈥淓valuation of Pre-thrombotic Markers in Female Patients with Sickle Cell Disease on Hormonal Contraception鈥�. Congrats, Erica!
April 30, 2022
Woosuk Steve Hur, a postdoctoral fellow in the Flick Lab, has been awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Postdoctoral Fellowship. This award covers salary support and provides funds for travel for 2 years.
April 27, 2022
Katharine King, a third year undergraduate from the biology department working in Dr. Flick’s lab, gave an invited oral presentation at the Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC) Symposium last week. Her presentation was entitled: 鈥淓limination of fibrin(ogen)-aMb2-binding function, but not fibrinogen deficiency, protects against obesity and metabolic syndrome鈥� Katie won the undergraduate student oral …
April 5, 2022
On April 1st, 2022, Nigel Mackman, PhD presented the inaugural J. Evans Sadler Lectureship – ‘Mechanisms of Cancer-Associated Thrombosis’