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Adam Cuker
Adam Cuker is an American hematologist at the University of Pennsylvania, Section Chief of Hematology, who led the 2024 hemophilia B gene therapy trial and the 2025 VAYHIT2 ITP trial.
Alexander Gallus
Alexander S. Gallus is an Australian physician and pathologist known for research on venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, and Emeritus Professor of Haematology at Flinders University in Adelaide.
Andreas Greinacher
Andreas Greinacher is a German physician-scientist in transfusion medicine who headed the department at Universitätsmedizin Greifswald from 1994 to 2024 and identified VITT after COVID-19 vaccination in 2021.
Antonio Girolami
Antonio Girolami is an Italian hematologist who founded the Thrombosis and Hemostasis group at the University of Padua and became a leader in diagnosing congenital bleeding disorders.
Barbara C. Furie
Barbara C. Furie is a hematology researcher and Professor of Medicine, Emerita, at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for work on blood coagulation and thrombosis.
Bengt I. Eriksson
Bengt I. Eriksson (Bengt Ingemar Eriksson) is a Swedish physician-scientist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg who led trials establishing desirudin, fondaparinux, and rivaroxaban for preventing thrombosis after hip surgery.
Benjamin Alexander
Benjamin Alexander was a physician-scientist in blood coagulation research at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for describing serum prothrombin conversion accelerator (SPCA) in 1949.
Benjamin Djulbegović
Benjamin Djulbegović is a physician-scientist in hematology and evidence-based medicine, a Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston since 2023.
Björn Dahlbäck
Björn Dahlbäck, born 1949, is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor emeritus at Lund University in Malmö, best known for discovering APC resistance and the factor V Leiden mutation.
Bruce Furie
Bruce Furie (1944–2025) was an American hematologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former Chief of Hemostasis and Thrombosis at Beth Israel Deaconess, known for discoveries in blood coagulation and thrombosis.
Camille Delezenne
Camille Delezenne (1868–1932) was a French physician and biologist who headed the physiology laboratory of the Institut Pasteur in Paris from 1900, studying blood coagulation and snake venom enzymology.
Charles W. Francis
Charles W. Francis is an American hematologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, known for the 2008 chemotherapy-associated thrombosis risk model and the 2003 EXULT A trial.
Clive Kearon
Clive Kearon was an Irish-born Canadian thrombosis specialist and professor of medicine at McMaster University whose New England Journal trials changed anticoagulation practice; he died in 2020.
Désiré Collen
Désiré Collen (born 1943) is a Belgian physician-scientist who cloned tissue-type plasminogen activator and developed it into alteplase, a clot-dissolving drug used worldwide for heart attack and stroke.
Earl W. Davie
Earl W. Davie (1927–2020) was an American biochemist at the University of Washington who proposed the 1964 waterfall sequence model of blood coagulation and co-founded ZymoGenetics.
Eric Jaffe
Eric Jaffe (1942–2024) was an American physician-scientist at Cornell University Medical College who first cultured human endothelial cells in 1973, helping initiate modern vascular biology.
Erik Jorpes
Erik Jorpes, born Johan Erik Johansson (1894–1973), was a Finnish-born Swedish biochemist at Karolinska Institutet who determined heparin's chemistry, made it a clinical anticoagulant, and purified secretin and cholecystokinin.
George Broze
George J. Broze was an American hematologist and professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for discovering tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI).
Giancarlo Agnelli
Giancarlo Agnelli is an Italian physician-scientist, Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Perugia, known for leading clinical trials of anticoagulants including the Caravaggio trial.
Hanny Al‐Samkari
Hanny Al-Samkari is an American hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who led major trials in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and pyruvate kinase deficiency.
Harry R. Büller
Harry R. Büller (born 1952) is a Dutch internist and clinical trialist in vascular medicine at Amsterdam UMC whose trials reshaped the diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolism.
Harvey R. Gralnick
Harvey R. Gralnick is an American physician-scientist in blood coagulation research, based at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, known for work on von Willebrand disease.
Henri Bounameaux
Henri Bounameaux, born 1953 in Liège, Belgium, is a Swiss physician-scientist who built Geneva University Hospitals' angiology service into an international reference center for pulmonary embolism.
Hugo Ten Cate
Hugo ten Cate is a Dutch internist and physician-scientist, professor emeritus at Maastricht University, known for linking blood coagulation with inflammation and for advancing thrombin generation testing.
J W ten Cate
Jan Wouter ten Cate (1939–2020) was a Dutch physician at the University of Amsterdam who co-authored the 1994 Lancet report identifying the Factor V Leiden mutation.
Jack Hirsh
Jack Hirsh (born January 7, 1935, in Melbourne) is an Australian-born physician-scientist at McMaster University whose work on heparin monitoring and the INR shaped anticoagulant therapy.
Jan W. ten Cate
Jan W. ten Cate (Jan Wouter ten Cate, 1939–2020) was a Dutch internist and hematologist at the University of Amsterdam whose work fixed how deep-vein thrombosis is diagnosed and treated.
Jay L. Degen
Jay L. Degen is a hematologist and mouse geneticist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and the University of Cincinnati, known for using gene-targeted mice to define what blood-clotting and clot-dissolving proteins do.
Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu
Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu, also published as Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu, is a polymer chemist and biomaterials researcher at the University of British Columbia who designs blood-compatible surfaces and synthetic anticoagulants.
Jeffrey S. Ginsberg
Jeffrey S. Ginsberg, also known as Jeffrey Ginsberg, was a Canadian internist and thrombosis researcher at McMaster University known for research on venous thromboembolism and thrombosis in pregnancy.