ASTH Travel Grant Winners

2008 ASTH Travel Grant Winners (A$1000 each)

Murray Adams: The effect of Capsaicin and Dihydrocapsaicin on blood coagulation and platelet aggregation in vitro

Kate Burbury: Warfarin Reversal, for Elective Surgical Procedures, Using Low Dose Intravenous Vitamin K: Impact on Vitamin K-Dependent Factor Levels

Lisa Lincz: Endogenous Thrombin Potential (ETP) as a Novel Method for Characterization of Procoagulant Snake Venoms

Deepak Singhal: A Report on Acquired haemophilia A in South Australia from 1998 to 2008

Peter Tan: The Use of a Prothrombin-Complex Concentrate (Prothrombinex-VF®) in Medical and Surgical Patients - A Review of a Single Institution's Experience

Huy Tran: A single tertiary centre experience with inhibitors in paediatric patients with severe haemophilia

2007 ASTH Travel Grant Winners (A$1000 each)

Christina Brown: Influence of lepirudin and warfarin on APTT, Ecarin Clotting Time and INR: Implications for laboratory monitoring of patients with heparin induced thrombocytopenia

David Connor: Phospholipid-dependent Procoagulant Activity of Platelet-derived Microparticles is Restricted to the Annexin V Binding Subpopulation

Jenny Curnow: Reduced Fibrinolysis and Increased Fibrin Generation is seen in Patients with Thrombotic Complications of Pregnancy Compared with Normal Pregnancy

Caroline Moraes: A Rapid Automated Technique to Detect Platelet Activation in Plasma

Beatrice Mui: Platelet Function Testing using a modified cone and plate assay on the Diamed Impact-R

Helen Weston: Comparison of the PFA-100 Assay with Von Willebrand Testing in the Laboratory Assessment of Response to DDAVP in Coagulation and Platelet Disorders

2006 ASTH Travel Grant Winners (A$1000 each)

Vanessa Cole: The molecular characterisation of a proteini S deficient pedigree

Ashley Ng: A review of TTP at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

Lay Tay: A comparative study of different methods of monitoring LMWH

2005 ASTH Travel Grant Winners (A$750 each)

Dolly Daniel: International normalised ratios measured at home with a point of care device diverge from hospital laboratory results when starting Warfarin

Emma Perrin: A comparison of Enoxaparin and unfractionated Heparin in combination with Tirofiban during percutaneous coronary intervention: Effects on inhibition of coagulation and activation of platelets

Linda Saravanan: Afibrinogenaemia due to a compound heterozygosity for two termination events in the Aα chain

2004 ASTH Travel Grant Winners (A$1000 each)

Karen Allan: Activated seven lupus anticoagulant method development

Murray Adams: The tissue factor pathway in ischaemic stroke patients

Kate Maslen: Measurement of soluble P - selectin and soluble CD40 ligand in serum and plasma