2024 THANZ Travel Grant Winners
- Ibrahim Tohidi-Esfahani (John Lloyd Travel Grant)– RNA Sequencing identifies differential Transcriptomic Signatures in Platelet subpopulations and the proximal role of large GTPase dynamin in Procoagulant Platelet Formation
- Vijay Bhoopalan– Ribosome biogenesis inhibition aids in the differentiation of stem cells
- Hadley Brotz– Retrospective review of thromboprophylaxis in patients undergoing urological surgery
- Yvonne Kong– The role of Endoplasmic Reticulum stress in Platelet production
- Marcus Lombard-Final analysis of the Prospective Cohort Study on patients with a Haematological malignancy on Anticoagulants who develop Thrombocytopaenia (HAT Study).
- Hannah Stevens– Metabolomic Signatures as Predictors of Bleeding in Anticoagulant Therapy
2024 THANZ International Travel Grant
- Andy Sing Ong Tang (Sarawak General Hospital, Malaysia)- Congenital factor XIII deficiency: a disease not to be forgotten – real world experience from Malaysia
2023 THANZ International Travel Grant
- Jialin Qiao (Xuzhou Medical University, China)- MTH1 protects platelet mitochondria from oxidative damage and is essential for GPCR-dependent platelet function and thrombosis
Below: Jialin recieving his certificate from THANZ President, Chee Wee Tan
2023 THANZ Travel Grant Winners
- Marc Ellis (John Lloyd Travel Grant) – GPIb-FilaminA interaction regulates megakaryocyte localization and budding during platelet biogenesis
- Yvonne Kong – Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress activation determines megakaryocyte and platelet ER chaperone distribution.
- Rowena Brook – Spontaneous bleeding in chronic kidney disease patients – global coagulation assays may be predictive of bleeding risk.
- Joanne So – Venous anomalies – an under-recognised but important cause of venous thromboembolism (VTE)
- David Capraro – Investigating the bidirectional interactions between platelets and colorectal cancer and the effects of aspirin
- Caroline Reddel – Age-related changes in overall haemostatic potential
2022 Inaugural THANZ International Travel Grant
- Dr Akbar Dorgalaleh (Iranian Comprehensive Hemophilia Care Center): The relationship between coagulation factor activity level and bleeding severity and quality of life in patients with rare bleeding disorders.
2022 THANZ Travel Grant Winners
- Christine Lee (JohnLloyd Grant): Procoagulant platelet assay for the diagnosis and monitoring of platelet-activating antibodies in vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) – Australian cohort’
- Lisa Clarke: Vaccine-induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia post Dose 2 ChAdOx1 nCoV19 vaccination: less severe but not void of catastrophic outcomes
- Brian Grainger: Characteristics and outcomes of Australian adults with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP): the Melbourne Adult ITP (MA-ITP) Registry
- Helena Liang: Myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) patients show increased platelet mitochondrial mass with abnormal distribution and impaired mitochondrial function’
- Hannah Stevens: Novel Prothrombotic Genetic Variants, TSPAN15 rs78707713 and SLC44A2 rs2288904, are associated with an increased risk of Cancer-associated Thrombosis
2021 THANZ Conference Grant Winners
- Tina Noutos (John Lloyd Grant): Snakebite associated thrombotic microangiopathy in the Australian Snakebite Project
- Diane Lovelock: A curious case of heparin resistance
- Dianne Van der Wal: Storage of apheresis platelets in lipaemic plasma affects aspects of platelet function and surface receptor expression
- Julie Wang: Overall Haemostatic Potential identifies greater severity of COVID-19 infection
- Silvia Zheng: Anti-platelet Antibody’s Differential Impact in ITP
2019 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1,000 each)
- Amandeep Kaur (John Lloyd Travel Grant): The ribosomal biogenesis inhibitor CX5461 is an anti-cancer therapeutic that increases platelet count in mice and in human
- Even Pennell: Acute bilirubin ditaurate exposure attenuates ex vivo platelet reactive oxygen species production, granule exocytosis and activation.
- Silvia Zheng: Anti-αIIbβIII autoantibodies induce platelet desialylation in immune thrombocytopenia
- Anneke Vanderham: Viper venom and algorithms: Lupus Anticoagulant Diagnosis in the days of the DOAC
- Joseph Rigano: Evaluation of DOAC-Stop® to Eliminate the Interference of Direct Oral Anticoagulants on Thrombophilia Assays
- Dianne Lovelock: Acquired Haemophilia A – a laboratory perspective
2018 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1,000 each)
- Maria Selvadurai (John Lloyd Travel Grant):Targeting the platelet internal membrane reveals a novel approach for improved anti-platelet therapies
- David Rabolini: An Integrated Approach to Inherited Platelet Disorders: Results from a Research Collaborative, the Sydney Platelet Group
- James McFadyen: Compression force sensing regulates integrin αIIbβ3 adhesive function on diabetic platelets
- Yvonne Brennan: Lessons learnt from local real-life experience with idarucizumab for the reversal of dabigatran
- Helena Liang: Patients with coronary artery disease have increased circulating procoagulant platelets and appear primed to undergo loss of platelet mitochondrial integrity
- Caroline Reddel: Enhanced fibrinolysis and reduced microvesicles after remote ischaemic preconditioning in non-diabetic coronary artery disease patients
2017 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1,000 each)
- Samantha Monague (John Lloyd Travel Grant): Fibrin-mediated GPVI shedding in patients with trauma or inflammation
- Jim Tio: miR-494-3p regulates transcription factors Sp1 and STAT5B to modulate haemostatic factor expression
- Dianne van der Wal: The role of platelet-attached glycans in platelet function
- Shauna French: A common protease-activated receptor 4 variant causes platelet hyper-reactivity and its blockade is antithrombotic
- Alyssa Rocchi: 2’OMe oligonucleotides block the miR-494/PROS1 interaction in patients with PS deficiencies
- Yusrah Harahsheh: Use of thromboelastography to identify patients with acquired coagulopathy at risk of developing thromboembolic events.
2016 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1,000 each)
- Marie-Christine Kopp (John Lloyd Travel Grant): Identification of a new dysfunctional platelet P2Y12 receptor variant in a family with bleeding history
- Genia Burchall: Aberrant Haemostasis from OCP, but not Metformin use in Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
- Hiu Lam Agnes Yuen: Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) in Patients with Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL) Receiving R-MPV
- Jasmine Tay: Validation of plasma miR-494-3p and miR-365a-3p expression levels as indicators of thrombotic risk
- Lette Ginsberg: Diagnostic algorithm in Heparin Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (HITT): review of serotonin release assay results
- Yenna Chun: MYH9 disorders are not uncommon in Australia and New Zealand: results from a platelet next generation sequencing (NGS) project
2015 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1,000 each)
- Shauna French (John Lloyd Travel Grant): Inhibition of the platelet thrombin receptor, PAR4, impairs platelet procoagulant function and is sufficient to provide an anti-thrombotic effect in human blood
- Win Lui: MicroRNA-494: a multifaceted regulator of coagulation
- Leonardo Pasalic: A whole blood assay using a novel cell death marker demonstrates procoagulant platelets are increased in patients with coronary artery disease with differential effects by anti-platelet therapy
- Jiayin Tian: Oestrogen sensitive microRNAs, a new player in regulating Factor VIII and tissue factor genes during pregnancy
- Scott McGregor: Comparative effects of rivaroxaban and apixaban on thrombin generation
- Marliesse Alexander: Biomarkers of thromboembolism in lung cancer
2014 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (AU $1000 each)
- Justin Hamilton (John Lloyd Travel Grant): PI3KC2a regulates platelet OCS structure and uncovers a novel link between the platelet internal membrane system, adhesive function and thrombus stability.
- Prahlad Ho: Thrombin generation in the normal population- Impact of age and sex
- Minh Hua: Platelet activation and procoagulant platelet formation appear to be uncoupled
- Susan Jarvis: Evaluation of Multiplate whole blood impedance aggregometry in routine investigation of bleeding disorders
- Prohan Lukito: Ventricular assist devices are associated with loss of platelet receptors
- James McFayden: Tractopods: Novel platelet membrane anchors promoting platelet-endothelial interactions and thrombo-inflammation
2013 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1,000 each)
- James McFayden (John Lloyd Travel Grant): Tractopods are novel platelet glycoprotein IIbIIIa dependent adhesion strucures that are dysregulated in diabetes and chronic oxidative stress
- Vincent Chow: Enhanced Coagulation and Reduced Fibrinolytic Potential in Long-term Survivors of Pulmonary Embolism
- David Connor: The relationship between antiplatelet drug therapy and platelet microparticle formation and procoagulant activity in patients with cardiovascular disease
- Yusra Harahsheh: The Importance of Bethesda Assays in the diagnosis and monitoring of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) patients
- Minh Hua: Necrotic Platelets Play A Role in Occlusive Thrombi
- Louise Seymour: The KIR2DS5 genotype confers protection against adult Immune Thrombocytopenia
2012 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1,000 each)
- Minh Hua (John Lloyd Travel Grant): Cell Death Imager- 1 Ligands in Apoptotic Platelets
- Ken Ly: Longitudinal Investigation of the Effect of Centrifugal Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices (cfLVADS) on Haemostatic Parameters
- Gabrielle Pennings: Soluble EMMPRIN is associated with reduced coagulation potential in NSTEMI
- Carolyn Reddel: Increased Thrombin Generation in a Mouse Model of Cancer Cachexian
- Jasmine Tay: miR-494 Down regulates Protein S Expression
- Zane Kaplan: Directed Intravascular Leukocyte Migration: A Distinct Leukocyte Guidance Mechanism Mediated by Platelet Thrombi
2011 THANZ Trvel Grant Winners (Aus$1,000 each)
- Murray Adams: Impaired Control of the Tissue Factor Pathway in SLE
- Noel Chan: A Two-Centre (AUS-NZ) Retrospective Audit of Pregnancy Related Venous Thromboembolism (VTE): Failure of Current Guideline to Identify at Risk Patients in the Postpartum Period
- Tim Ganderton: Mechanism of Lateral Self-Association of Von Willebrand Factor
- Ming Hua: CDI-1 is a novel marker of platelet apoptosis
- Jian-Lin Qiao: Analysis of Platelet Receptor Expression in ITP
- Angus Wong: Development of a Microfluidic Device to Monitor Platelet Aggregation Dynamics and Function in the Context of von Willebrand Disease
2010 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1000 each)
- Reanu Gopal: Thrombin Generation in Mild and Moderate Haemophilia A
- Eileen Merriman: Prothrombinex-VF for Reversal of Coagulopathy: Efficacy and Safety in Patients with Mechanical Heart Valves
- Jian-Lin Qiao: A Patient With Myelodysplastic Syndrome And An Acquired Defect In Platelet Response To Collagen Helps Redefine The Signalling Pathway Leading To GPVI Shedding
- Marc Ramsperger: Molecular characterisation of the immune response to Factor VIII (FVIII) in haemophilia A patients
- Caroline Reddel: Detection of Hypercoagulability in Coronary Artery Disease Patients using the Overall Haemostatic Potential (OHP) Assay: A Pilot Study
- Rajiv Subramanian: Hematological spectrum and Clinical Profile of Glanzmann Thrombasthenia in Southern India: Study of 221 patients from a tertiary centre
2009 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1000 each)
- Steve Lazar: Understanding Hospital Physicians Perspectives and Attitudes towards the Implementation of Venous Thrombosis Prophylaxis
- Marie-Christine Morel-Kopp: Rapid diagnosis of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia by whole blood imdedance aggregometry
- Tina Noutsas: A Single Institution Experience with Retrievable Inferior Vena Caval Filters
- Chee Wee Tan: Lepirudin Use and Laboratory Monitoring in Patients on Chronic Haemodialysis with a history of Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia(HIT)
- Natalie Tjen: Vancomycin induced thrombocytopenia in hospitalised patients
- Huy Tran: Thrombin Generation and Vitamin K Dependent Procoagulant Factors in Warfarinised Adult Patients
2008 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1000 each)
- Murray Adams: The effect of Capsaicin and Dihydrocapsaicin on blood coagulation and platelet aggregation in vitro
- Kate Burbury: Warfarin Reversal, for Elective Surgical Procedures, Using Low Dose Intravenous Vitamin K: Impact on Vitamin K-Dependent Factor Levels
- Lisa Lincz: Endogenous Thrombin Potential (ETP) as a Novel Method for Characterization of Procoagulant Snake Venoms
- Deepak Singhal: A Report on Acquired haemophilia A in South Australia from 1998 to 2008
- Peter Tan: The Use of a Prothrombin-Complex Concentrate (Prothrombinex-VF®) in Medical and Surgical Patients – A Review of a Single Institution’s Experience
- Huy Tran: A single tertiary centre experience with inhibitors in paediatric patients with severe haemophilia
2007 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1000 each)
- Christina Brown: Influence of lepirudin and warfarin on APTT, Ecarin Clotting Time and INR: Implications for laboratory monitoring of patients with heparin induced thrombocytopenia
- David Connor: Phospholipid-dependent Procoagulant Activity of Platelet-derived Microparticles is Restricted to the Annexin V Binding Subpopulation
- Jenny Curnow: Reduced Fibrinolysis and Increased Fibrin Generation is seen in Patients with Thrombotic Complications of Pregnancy Compared with Normal Pregnancy
- Caroline Moraes: A Rapid Automated Technique to Detect Platelet Activation in Plasma
- Beatrice Mui: Platelet Function Testing using a modified cone and plate assay on the Diamed Impact-R
- Helen Weston: Comparison of the PFA-100 Assay with Von Willebrand Testing in the Laboratory Assessment of Response to DDAVP in Coagulation and Platelet Disorders
2006 TANZH Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1000 each)
- Vanessa Cole: The molecular characterisation of a proteini S deficient pedigree
- Ashley Ng: A review of TTP at the Royal Melbourne Hospital
- Lay Tay: A comparative study of different methods of monitoring LMWH
2005 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$750 each)
- Dolly Daniel: International normalised ratios measured at home with a point of care device diverge from hospital laboratory results when starting Warfarin
- Emma Perrin: A comparison of Enoxaparin and unfractionated Heparin in combination with Tirofiban during percutaneous coronary intervention: Effects on inhibition of coagulation and activation of platelets
- Linda Saravanan: Afibrinogenaemia due to a compound heterozygosity for two termination events in the Aα chain
2004 THANZ Travel Grant Winners (Aus$1000 each)
- Karen Allan: Activated seven lupus anticoagulant method development
- Murray Adams: The tissue factor pathway in ischaemic stroke patients
- Kate Maslen: Measurement of soluble P – selectin and soluble CD40 ligand in serum and plasma