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Robert I. Handin

Robert I. Handin, also known as Robert Handin, is an American hematologist at Harvard Medical School known for work on platelet biology and transfusion medicine.

Robert McMillan (hematologist)

Robert McMillan was an American hematologist at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, whose work traced chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura to antibodies made by the spleen.

Rodger P. McEver

Rodger P. McEver, born 1948 in New Orleans, is an American hematologist known for discovering P-selectin and PSGL-1 during 36 years at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

Ronald A. Yankee

Ronald A. Yankee was a physician-scientist in hematology and transfusion medicine who pioneered selecting platelet donors by HL-A matching, showing matched platelets restore responses in refractory patients.

Sanford J. Shattil

Sanford J. Shattil, also known as Sanford Shattil, is an American hematologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego, known for work on platelet integrin αIIbβ3 signaling.

Saroj Vadhan‐Raj

Saroj Vadhan-Raj, also published as S. Vadhan-Raj, is a physician-scientist in hematology and oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, known for clinical trials of the growth factors GM-CSF and thrombopoietin.

Simon Karpatkin

Simon Karpatkin was an American hematologist and Director of Hematology at NYU School of Medicine who established platelet heterogeneity and platelets' role in tumor metastasis.

Steve P. Watson

Steve P. Watson is a British platelet biologist and Emeritus British Heart Foundation Professor at the University of Birmingham, known for establishing how the platelet collagen receptor GPVI signals.

Theodore E. Warkentin

Theodore E. Warkentin is a Canadian clinical and laboratory hematologist at McMaster University and Hamilton General Hospital, best known for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia research and devising the 4Ts scoring system.

Xiaoping Du

Xiaoping Du is a platelet biologist and professor of pharmacology at the University of Illinois Chicago, known for the 1991 discovery of integrin inside-out signaling and a new antithrombotic strategy.

Yeon S. Ahn

Yeon S. Ahn (Yeon Soong Ahn) is a Miami-based hematologist known for introducing vincristine and danazol therapies for immune thrombocytopenia at the University of Miami.

Zaverio M. Ruggeri

Zaverio M. Ruggeri is a hematology researcher and Professor Emeritus at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for work on platelet adhesion and von Willebrand disease.