McMaster University researcher Angela Huynh has won the Canadian Medical Association (CMA)’s Award for Young Leaders for her work in uncovering vaccine-related blood clots.
The McMaster Platelet Immunology Laboratory (MPIL) has been cemented as Canada’s centre for combatting vaccine-related blood clots thanks to a grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada.
A McMaster team of researchers has found how the COVID-19 vaccines that use adenovirus vectors trigger a rare but sometimes fatal blood clotting reaction called vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia or VITT.