Dissecting the Roles of Non-muscle Myosin IIA in May-Hegglin Platelet Disorders

Dissecting the Roles of Non-muscle Myosin IIA in May-Hegglin Platelet Disorders

Year:
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Grants:
Judith Graham Pool Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Platelets
Author(s):
Kasturi Pal
Per Dr. Pal, receiving the JGP Fellowship was a major milestone in her academic career and has given her the confidence to apply for future extramural funding.
Novel Therapeutics for Hemophilia

Novel Therapeutics for Hemophilia

Year:
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Grants:
Innovative Investigator Research Award
Hemophilia A (Factor VIII/F8)
Author(s):
Shannon L. Meeks

Dr. Meeks is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Duke University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After earning her medical degree from the University of Mississippi, she completed her clinical training at the University of Virginia and Emory University. Dr. Meeks has a basic, translational, and clinical research interest in the development of inhibitors in hemophilia A. Her work has focused on the early immune response to factor VIII and the diversity of the B-cell response to factor VIII. She is a former NHF clinical fellow who currently has funding to pursue these projects from the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society and the National Institutes of Health.