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RESEARCEINSTITUTE OF SCRIPPS CLINIC
AI{ARDED $I3 MILLION FOR BLOOD CLOT STUDY
LA JOLLA, CA March 31,
f nstitute
of
from the
the
Scr ipps
National
formation
and
Scientists
at
the
Research
(RISC) have been awarded $13 mil-lion
Cl-inic
Heart,
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Lung and Blood Institute
breakdown
of
bl-ood
to
clots
investigate
in
the
human
ci rcul-at ion.
The grant
began in
is
a five-year
1984, and is
Research
rnstitute
decade
did
factors
heart
doubt
in
about
not
the
patients.
Griffin
made
even
attacks.
harmful
cl-ots
this
field,
by the
according
to
the
ph.D.,
of
the
John H. Griffin,
explained,
blood
clots
Now, of
role
of
"many scientists
were particularly
course,
clots;
and preventing
there
is
important
no longer
many lives
them from
and
are
any
being
recurring
in
"
added
safer
Griffin
think
saved by dissolving
coronary
in
ever received
Immunology.
d9or"
physicians
studies
investigator
RISC Department of
'A
NIH grant
the largest
for
principal
study's
renewal of a research program which
that
and
"we bel-ieve
more
effective
MORE
these
if
treatments
more
is
could
be
known about
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part
RISC is
of
private,
largest
the purpose of our basic
That is
thrombosis.
dedicated
Scripps
biomedical
patient
to
Clinic
and Research Foundation,
institute
care,
research program. "
in
biomedical
the
United
research
the
States,
and continuing
medica] educat ion .
The new $13 million
separate
l-aboratories,
thrombosis,
projects
events
or
involved
and
one
bl-ood pressure,
Based
design
on
cardiovascul-ar
In
Luskutoff,
both
addition
A.
normal
the
aspect of
the
clotting
and the
detecting
individual-s
these
of
cl-ot
proteins
effects
of
on clotting.
RISC investigators
for
of
molecular
regulation
of
platelets,
the
strategies
into
seven
and
hope to
and controlling
in
pat ients
with
disease.
Ful-cher, Ph.D.,
Laurence
and
insight
and turbulence
knowl-edge,
work of
The common goal
interaction
blood
the
a particular
including
the
and with
this
in
greater
thrornbosis,
flow-rate,
new tests
bl-ood clots
gain
breakdown,
another
support
process.
clotting
in
will
each investigating
be to
will
formation
with
the
grant
to
Griffin,
the
It{ark H. Ginsberg,
Harker,
Ph.D.,
M.D.,
and Zaverio
project
incl-ude Carol
M.D., Stephen R. Hanson, Ph.D.,
Richard
Houghten,
M. Ruggeri,
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leaders
M.D.
Ph.D.,
David
J.