Dr. Stephan Moll has received a $1.25 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish a research database for studies of blood clot disorders and to create patient support groups for people with blood clots and clotting disorders throughout North Carolina.
The grant will also be used to create a network of specialized centers to find new causes of blood clots, investigate the impact that clots have on patients’ health and educate the public and health care providers, said Moll, an associate professor of hematology and oncology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
The first seminar, organized by the UNC Thrombosis Program, will be held in the Triangle region of North Carolina on March 1, 2008, as the opening of Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month.
“I am thrilled that UNC has been chosen as one of only five Thrombosis Centers in the country to receive CDC funding,” said Moll. “This grant will enable us to create a network of specialized centers to find new causes of blood clots and investigate the impact that clots have on patients’ health.”
UNC will collect data on inpatient and outpatients with thrombosis and thrombophilia to study patients with rare clotting disorders and uncommon blood clots. Researchers will also evaluate the differences in referral patterns of black vs. white patients and differences in the types of thrombosis they have had. The registry will serve as a resource to study yet unknown risk factors of blood clots in blacks, as well as in individuals with a strong family history of blood clots.
School of Medicine contact: Stephanie Crayton, (919) 966-2860 or scrayton@unch.unc.edu
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