"FWGBD is very pleased to report that our founding President, Dr. Andra H. James (Andi), has been awarded the HTRS (Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Society) Lifetime Achievement Award, at their 2017 Scientific Symposium on April 8, 2017.
Andi is an Ob/Gyn with a singular grasp of benign hematology. Her understanding of, and concern about bleeding and clotting disorders in women was informed and enhanced by her Fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Duke, where she spent three years in the laboratory of Dr. Russell Ware; her Ob/Gyn residency at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, incubator of advances in knowledge about hemophilia and hemostasis; by her graduate training in Public Health at Johns Hopkins; and by having been a nurse-midwife at the start of her career."
- From the Foundation for Women & Girls with Blood Disorders
"Scientists from George Mason University recently isolated a substance in the blood of a Komodo dragon that appeared to have powerful germ-killing abilities.
Inspired by the discovery, they created a similar chemical in the lab and dubbed it DRGN-1.
Tests on mice that were given skin wounds infected with two types of bacteria showed that DRGN-1 had three valuable properties: It punched holes in the outer membranes of both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, it dissolved the biofilms that glue bacteria together, and it sped skin healing."
- By Donald G. McNeil Jr. for the NY Times.
"Donald Arnold, associate professor of medicine, is helping jump start the Platelet Disorder Support Association (PDSA) in Canada, a not-for-profit patient advocacy group that has been very active in the U.S. It aims to improve the lives of people with ITP and other platelet disorders through education, advocacy, research and support.
Arnold, a hematologist, is a medical advisor for the PDSA, which is holding its first meeting April 29 in Montreal. This meeting is geared for ITP patients, caregivers and the medical community."
- By McMaster University