ISTH SSC issues new grants to fund innovative new projects in thrombosis and hemostasis research

The International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) announces five recipients of its 2025 Scientific and Standardization Committee (SSC) grant awards. This annual program provides essential funding to support groundbreaking research and advance the SSC’s mission of establishing important standards in thrombosis and hemostasis.

The SSC operates as a permanent committee of the ISTH with independent authority of its scientific program, reporting to the ISTH Council. Through collaborations with global organizations, the SSC fosters innovation and develops internationally recognized guidelines and standards in the field. The SSC is comprised of 21 subcommittees, alongside one working group, one standing committee and the executive committee.

“The SSC grant awards exemplify the ISTH’s commitment to inspiring innovation and supporting impactful projects that shape the future of thrombosis and hemostasis research,” said ISTH SSC Chair Kathleen Freson. “We are proud to celebrate the achievements of the 2025 recipients and their contributions to the field.”

The program offers two tiers of grant funding: large grant awards with funding of up to $50,000 USD and small grant awards with funding up to $20,000 USD.

The 2025 recipients are as follows:

Large grant award recipients (partial funding of $35,000 USD)

Hemostatic Management of Patients with Liver Diseases

• Principal Investigators: Amber Afzal, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine (United States) and Simon Stanworth, NHS Blood and Transplant (United Kingdom)
• Title: “Evaluation of the current patterns of platelet and coagulation factor replacement in patients with cirrhosis along with feedback to the participating sites to encourage implementation of the ISTH guidance; a prospective, non-interventional, multicenter (point-prevalence) audit of practice”

Pediatric and Neonatal Thrombosis and Hemostasis

• Principal Investigator: Madhvi Rajpurkar, Children's Hospital of Michigan / Wayne State University/Central Michigan University (United States)
• Title: “PROSPECT: PROSpective evaluation of Pulmonary Embolism in Children Study”

Small grant award recipients ($20,000 USD)

Hemostasis and Malignancy

• Principal Investigator: Florian Moik, Medical University of Graz (Austria)
• Title: “Thromboembolic Events with Amivantamab-based Therapies in Patients with Lung Cancer – Project Proposal from the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Haemostasis and Malignancy”

Fibrinolysis

• Principal Investigator: Tetsumei Urano, Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health (Japan)
• Title: “Establishment of a guidance for the diagnosis of rare bleeding disorders caused by dysfunction of fibrinolysis inhibitors”

Vascular Biology

• Principal Investigator: Yohei Hisada, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (United States)
• Title: “Advancing standardization of extracellular vesicle tissue factor activity assay”

To learn more about the SSC grants program, visit www.isth.org/page/SSCGrants.