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José A. López, MD is the newly appointed executive vice president for Research at Puget Sound Blood Center. Dr. López will be guiding and manage the Blood Center’s expanding research program while continuing his studies related to hemostatic and thrombotic diseases. Dr. López is also Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Dr. López comes to Seattle from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he was scientific director of the medical facility’s Thrombosis Research Section and Vice-Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine. Dr. López is internationally acknowledged as one of the foremost experts in platelets and vascular biology, being recognized for his work in platelet receptors and von Willebrand factor functions. He has also been recognized for his accomplishments by election into the American Society of Clinical Investigation, being awarded an Established Investigatorship by the American Heart Association, and being named to the Hematology I Study Section of the National Institutes of Health and to national and regional Study Sections of the American Heart Association. This past summer he received the Career Recognition Award from the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis.
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