News & Events: Pulmonary Embolism

UCSF Surgeon-scientist Lucy Kornblith, M.D. (PI) and her mentee, Zachary Matthay, M.D. (Co-PI) were awarded two grants for their proposed COVID-19-related research by the UCSF COVID-19 Rapid Response Pilot Grant Program, supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, and National Institutes of Health (sponsored by the UCSF Academic Senate, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and the Research Development Office). The first award will support their proposed prospective study entitled "CO-ACIT: COVID-19 Associated Coagulopathy, Inflammation, and [...]

Lucy Kornblith, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery in the UCSF Department of Surgery at ZSFG, is the 2019 recipient of The Irene Perstein Award for 2019, awarded by the UCSF School of Medicine to an outstanding, newly recruited, junior woman scientist. This unique award honors the legacy of Ms. Irene Perstein, who donated funds to support junior women faculty at UCSF. The highly competitive award is based on criteria including the novelty and innovation of the science, and the potential impact on human health. This award supports Dr. Kornblith's expansion of her investigations to include [...]

UCSF trauma surgeon Lucy Kornblith, M.D. has been awarded a 5-Year $1M National Institutes of Health (NIH) K23, Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Award to study to post-injury platelet biology. The award, through the National Institute of General Medical Studies, will support Dr. Kornblith's research through 2023.  The grant titled "Post-Injury Platelet Biology: Mechanisms and Outcomes", supports translational patient-oriented research. Specifically, Dr. Kornblith will investigate causal pathways, mechanisms, and associated outcomes of altered post-injury platelet biology in a prospective [...]

The National Trauma Institute recently issued an update on the progress of CLOTT Study, a 2nd phase that will more closely investigate the role of platelet biology in post-traumatic pulmonary embolism. To that end, UCSF surgeon-scientist Lucy Kornblith, M.D. has been recruited by principal investigator M. Margaret "Peggy" Knudson, M.D., FACS.  Following a productive investigation of the incidence of pulmonary thrombi after injury and the role of clot breakdown in the development of post-traumatic pulmonary embolism, the CLOTT study group (Consortium of Leaders in the Study of Traumatic [...]