Aniara Grant
- North American Grant Winner 2024
PhD
Postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and UNC Blood Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Kadri Kangro is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Alisa Wolberg’s and Dr. Matthew Flick’s labs in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and UNC Blood Research Center, specializing in hemostasis and thrombosis. She earned her PhD from KU Leuven Kulak in Belgium (2021) investigating the role of anti-ADAMTS13 autoantibodies in immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, developing diagnostic tools, and improving recombinant ADAMTS13 production. Her postdoctoral research focuses on venous thrombosis, particularly on the interaction between FXIII and fibrinogen, as well as on the role of fibrinogen and plasminogen in COVID-19.
- Global Grant Winner
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
Alessio Branchini is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology at the University of Ferrara (Italy). After a BSc degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology (2004) and a MSc in Biomolecular and Cellular Sciences (2006), he received his PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in 2011.
His research activity is mainly focused on the identification and characterization of genetic defects responsible for, or models of, blood coagulation disorders, including hemophilia, as well as on protein engineering approaches to generate improved fusion proteins joining coagulation factors and albumin.
He has presented his works in several national and international congresses, with his research being awarded by different national and international societies. He has also supervised several international research projects on hemophilia. Finally, he is also involved in teaching activities in the BSc and MSc in Biology, Biotechnology and Medical Biotechnology at the University of Ferrara, and serves, and has served, as associated/academic editor and reviewer for international journals and grant applications.
- North American Grant Winner 2024
Kadri Kangro,
PhD
Postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and UNC Blood Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Kadri Kangro is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Alisa Wolberg’s and Dr. Matthew Flick’s labs in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and UNC Blood Research Center, specializing in hemostasis and thrombosis. She earned her PhD from KU Leuven Kulak in Belgium (2021) investigating the role of anti-ADAMTS13 autoantibodies in immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, developing diagnostic tools, and improving recombinant ADAMTS13 production. Her postdoctoral research focuses on venous thrombosis, particularly on the interaction between FXIII and fibrinogen, as well as on the role of fibrinogen and plasminogen in COVID-19.
- Global Grant Winner
Alessio Branchini
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
Alessio Branchini is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology at the Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology at the University of Ferrara (Italy). After a BSc degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology (2004) and a MSc in Biomolecular and Cellular Sciences (2006), he received his PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in 2011.
His research activity is mainly focused on the identification and characterization of genetic defects responsible for, or models of, blood coagulation disorders, including hemophilia, as well as on protein engineering approaches to generate improved fusion proteins joining coagulation factors and albumin.
He has presented his works in several national and international congresses, with his research being awarded by different national and international societies. He has also supervised several international research projects on hemophilia. Finally, he is also involved in teaching activities in the BSc and MSc in Biology, Biotechnology and Medical Biotechnology at the University of Ferrara, and serves, and has served, as associated/academic editor and reviewer for international journals and grant applications.
- About the Grant
Aniara Diagnostica’s Coagulation Research Grant provides $10,000 for established investigators (eg – faculty at an academic institution) and for students/trainees to do innovative coagulation / hematology research. Deadline for receipt of application is November 1, 2025.
The Aniara Research Panel awards two yearly $10,000 grant – 1 for Aniara’s territory (North America & Scandinavia) and 1 global – for specialized in hematology and coagulation research. All proposed projects must in the coagulation / hematology scientific field.
- Funding
This Grant Program does not pay educational tuition, nor does it offer scholarships of fellowships of any kind.
- Eligibility
Applicants are expected to have advanced degress (Ph.D. or equivalent) and be associated with an educational organization or institution. Independent researchers or those pursuing a Ph.D.-level degree may apply, but awards to non-Ph.D. applicants are rare. As a general rule, all applicants are expected to have published a minimum of three articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- Grant Amount
Aniara Diagnostica will award two yearly $10,000 grants – one $10,000 grant recipient for Aniara’s territory and 1 $10,000 grant recipient global per year.
- Grant Restrictions
Aniara Coagulation Research Grants may not be used for indirect costs, overhead, and other expenses not directly related to the project. Fringe benefits are also excluded, as are salaries.
Funds may not be used for travel to scientific / professional meetings or conferences, legal actions, land acquisition, endowments, construction of permanent field stations, or publishing research results.
Thank you for applying.
- Previous Winners
- 2023 - Nicola Pozzi, Ph.D
- 2021 - Jessical Cardenas, PhD
- 2020 - Saravanan Subramaniam, PhD
- 2017 - Christina M . Laukaitis, MD, PhD and Dr. Rohith Jesudas, MD
- 2015 - Randal Westrick, PhD
- 2013 - Luigi Brunetti, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, CGP
- 2012 - Dr. Chad M. Paton, PhD
- 2010 - Leonardo R. Brandao, MD
- 2009 - Dr. Mirta Schattner PhD
- 2008 - Dr. Graciela Krikun, PhD
- 2007 - Dr. Margaret Prechel, PhD
- 2006 - Dr. A. Valance Washington, PhD
- Scientific Advisors
Dr. Dorothy Adcock
Medical Director / Laboratory Director Colorado
Coagulation Consultants, Inc. dba Esoterix Coagulation, Denver, Colorado
Dr. Kenneth A. Bauer
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. His hospital positions included Chief, Hematology Section, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Director, Thrombosis Clinical Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Charles S. Eby
Associate Director of Educational Programs, Division of Laboratory Medicine at Washington
University Saint Louis, Member of Barnes – Jewish Hospital Credentialing and Health Information Management Committees
Dr. Andreas Hillarp
Position as hospital chemist at the Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
Dr. Mervyn A. Sahud, M.D., A.B.I. M.-Hem.
Medical Director Coagulation Department Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute
Dr. Sam Schulman
Associate professor in Internal Medicine at Karolinska Institute and since September 2004 also professor in medicine at McMaster University.
Agneta Siegbahn, MD, Ph.D
Professor in Clinical Coagulation Science Department of Medical Sciences, Clinical Chemistry Akademiska Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Jogin R. Wu, Ph.D.
Associate Clincial Professor of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center. Associate Director, Clinical Coagulation Laboratory, Duke University Health System.