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The UNC Blood Research Center is pleased to announce the 12th Symposium on Hemostasis!

🩸 Beyond the Basics: Evolving Insights in Thrombosis and Hemostasis
👏 Co-chairs: @sparkenbaughlab.bsky.social Erica Sparkenbaugh and Robert Campbell
📅 April 21-23, 2026
📌 Chapel Hill, NC
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Nigel Key lab alumni @isth.org #ISTH2025 @unc-brc.bsky.social

Heading to #ISTH2025?

Many of our faculty and trainees will be presenting oral communications, state-of-the-art, SSCs, and posters at the conference!

The final seminar speaker of our Spring Series is coming soon!

🗓️ June 6th, 2025, 11:00 am
📍Mary Ellen Jones 3116
🗣️ Patricia Liaw, PhD
🧬 Therapeutic Targeting of Immunothrombosis in Sepsis: Mechanisms and Challenges.

This week's seminar speaker is Dr. Molly Mollica from University of Maryland

🗣️ Molly Mollica, PhD @mollicam.bsky.social
📆 May 23 at 11:00 AM in MEJ 3112
🩸"Connecting the (Black) Dots To Measure Single Platelet Contraction"
Host: Alisa Wolberg PhD @aswolberg.bsky.social

Alisa S. Wolberg, Ph.D. gave The Dr. William Bell Lecture in Hematology at Johns Hopkins University | UNC Blood Research Center 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,...

Congratulations to @aswolberg.bsky.social for being selected to give the Dr. William Bell Lecture in Hematology at Johns Hopkins University in March.

Ana Sachetto, PhD, co-chair of the International Postdoc Alliance of the UNC Postdoctoral Association | UNC Blood Research Center 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 ...

Blood Center News!

Congratulations to Ana Sachetto, the new co-chair of the International Postdoc Alliance of the UNC Post Doc Alliance!

Our next seminar speaker is Dr. Lacramioara Ivanciu from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
@chopresearch.bsky.social

📆 May 16, 2025 @ 11 AM EST
📍 UNC Chapel Hill, Mary Ellen Jones 3112
🎤 "Mechanistic Insights into the regulation of Intrinsic Tenase In Vivo"
🗣️ Hosted by Silvio Antoniak, PhD

Three BRC Labs Collaborate to Study Sickle Cell Trait | UNC Blood Research Center 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 ki...

🗣️New publication alert!
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We are pleased to host Dr. Ted Wun from UC Davis this week!

📆 April 11 2025 @ 11 AM EST
📍 UNC Chapel Hill, Mary Ellen Jones 3108
🎤 "Does Real-World Data Yield Real Answers?"
🗣️ Hosted by Sam Wilson, MD

Yohei Hisada, PhD, appointed as an Associate Editor for Thrombosis Research | UNC Blood Research Center 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, hemosta...

Exciting news for our investigator Dr. Yohei Hisada!

Dr. Hisada is an Associate Editor for Thrombosis Research! www.med.unc.edu/bloodresearc...

Mofi Obadina, MD, awarded W&G grant | UNC Blood Research Center 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. Th...

👏Well done, Dr. Obadina! Dr. Obadina received a research grant to study the role of hypoxia on pregnancy complications 🤰 in sickle cell disease from the Foundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders.

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

🏆Congratulations to Dr. Kadri Kangro, a postdoctoral fellow with @aswolberg.bsky.social, on the Aniara Diagnostica Coagulation Research Grant!

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We are hosting Dr. Miguel Cruz from Baylor College of Medicine in our Friday Seminar Series! 🩸

📅 March 21, 2025 @ 11 EST
🗺️ Mary Ellen Jones @ UNC
👨‍🏫 "Extracellular Vimentin and Thrombosis"
Host: Matt Flick, PhD @fib390-396a.bsky.social

#vimentin #thrombosis

First seminar of the year! We are pleased to welcome Dr. Sruti Shiva from University of Pittsburgh next week!
📆 March 7 2025 @ 11 AM EST
📍 UNC Chapel Hill, Mary Ellen Jones 3108
🎤 Platelet Mitochondria: A Hub of Vascular Signaling

Great to see work from our faculty in @rpth.bsky.social!

Alexei Martyanov was awarded an AHA postdoc fellowship | UNC Blood Research Center 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...

Congratulations to Alexei Martyanov of the Bergmeier Lab on the AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Final Seminar of Fall 2024!
📅 December 13 @ 11 EST
👩‍🔬Bhama Ramkhelawon, PhD
🩸Platelets in Focus: Unraveling their Roles in Vascular Health and Inflammation

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#ISTH2024
@profmakris.bsky.social

Abstracts NOW online #hemesky

Robert Lee won Best Oral Presentation Award | UNC Blood Research Center Robert Lee won Best Oral Presentation award at the 19th International Symposium on Blood Substitutes for his talk entitled “Interpretation of platelet signaling defects in Thromboelastography”

📰 Congratulations to Robert Lee, for Best Oral Presentation Award 🏆 at the 19th International Symposium on Blood Substitutes.

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