Congratulations to Susan M. Shea, PhD, who will receive funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health for her project, “Using Microfluidics to Identify Mechanisms of Platelet Dysfunction and Assess Therapeutic Efficacy in Traumatic Hemorrhage.”
Dr. Shea will work towards determining the most effective transfusion strategies to reverse platelet dysfunction in trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC). Her project will be the first time resuscitation of TIC will be investigated in a microfluidic model of bleeding. The platform could potentially be used to license hemostatic blood products, adjuncts, and agents, as well as provide the biologic rationale for clinical trials to assess the clinical efficacy of hemostatic products.