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7th Annual Platelet Colloquium (2012)

There was one Early Career Investigator Award and one Scholars Travel Award given at the 7th Annual Platelet Colloquium in January 2012. 

Lea Beaulieu, PhD (2012 Early Career Investigator Award)
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Research Title: The Contribution of Platelet Mitochondria to Thrombosis

Grace Lee, MD (2012 Scholars Travel Award)
Duke University
Research Title: Development of Protamine Heparin Antibodies in Patients after Cardiopulmonary Bypass


6th Annual Platelet Colloquium (2011)

There were two Early Career Investigator Awards and two Scholars Travel Award given at the 6th Annual Platelet Colloquium in January 2011. 

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Jesse W. Rowley, PhD (2011 Early Career Investigator Award)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow

University of Utah
Research Title: The Dynamic Platelet Transcriptome in Health and Disease

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Willibald Hochholzer, MD (2011 Early Career Investigator Award)
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Research Title: Time Dependence of Association of Bleeding with Mortality in Patients on Dual Antiplatelet Therapy

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Reema Jasuja, PhD (2011 Scholars Travel Award)
Post-doctoral Fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Research Title: A Novel Small Molecule Inhibitor of Protein Disulfide Isomerase Inhibits Thrombus Formation in a Mouse Laser-induced Thrombosis Model

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Gaurav Girdhar, PhD (2011 Scholars Travel Award)
Post-doctoral Associate (Fellow)
Stony Brook University
Research Title: Design Optimization of Rotary Blood Pump: Alternatives to Anticoagulation Therapy


5th Annual Platelet Colloquium (2010)

There were one Early Career Investigator Award and one Scholars Travel Award given at the 5th Annual Platelet Colloquium in January 2010.  One person presented a poster.
 

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Deepak Voora, MD (2010 Early Career Investigator Award)
Cardiovascular Research Fellow
Duke University Medical Center
Research Title: Molecular Signatures of the Response to Aspirin

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Mitali Das, PhD (2010 Scholars Travel Award)
Research Fellow
The Cleveland Clinic
Research Title: Migfilin: a Novel Regulator of Integrin Activation

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Bina Ahmed, MD (2010 Poster Presentation)
Fellow, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
University of Vermont
Research Title: Mechanistic and Procedural Characteristics Linking Female Gender to Increased Risk of Anticoagulation and Procedural Related Bleeding Complications


4th Annual Platelet Colloquium (2009)

There were one Early Career Investigator Award, two Travel Investigator Awards and one Established Investigator Award given at the 4th Annual Platelet Colloquium in January 2009.

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Henry Sun, MD (2009 Early Career Investigator Award)
Fellow, Interventional Cardiology
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Research Title: Glutamate Receptors as Novel Targets of Antiplatelet Therapy

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Jaehyung Cho, PhD (2009 Travel Investigator Award)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Division of Hemostasis and Thrombosis
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
Research Title: Role of Endothelium-derived Protein Disulfide Isomerase in Thrombus Formation In Vivo

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Jeremy P. Wood (2009 Travel Investigator Award)
Graduate Student
Department of Biochemistry
University of Vermont
Research Title: Phenotypic Analyses of Non-Dissociably Bound, Platelet-Derived Factor Va: Identification of a GPI-Anchored Pool
 

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Neal S. Kleiman, MD (2009 Established Investigator Award)
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
The Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center
Professor of Medicine 
Weill Cornell Medical College
The Methodist Hospital


There were four awards given at the 3rd Annual Platelet Colloquium in January 2008.

The award winners included:


 

Carlos L. Alviar, MD (2008 Young Investigator Award)
Research Fellow
Post Doctoral Associate
Interventional Cardiology
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Research Title: Role of Reticulated Platelets and Platelet Size Heterogeneity in Modifying Antiplatelet Effects of Aspirin and Clopidogrel in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease

Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, MS (2008 Young Investigator Award)
Fellow, Division of Cardiology
Duke University Medical Center
Research Title: Clinical Correlates of Platelet Reactivity: The Influence of Serotonin

Lorenzo Federico, MS (2008 Young Investigator Award)
Department of Pharmacology
University of Kentucky
Research Title: New Molecular Targets in Atherothrombotic Disease: Role of LPA/LPA4 Axis in Platelet Function

Edward F. Plow, PhD (2008 Established Investigator Award)
Chairman
Department of Molecular Cardiology
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation