Lucy Kornblith, M.D. Recipient of 5-Year $1M NIH K23 Award for Study of Post-Injury Platelet Biology

UCSF trauma surgeon Lucy Kornblith, M.D. has been awarded a 5-Year $1M National Institutes of Health (NIH) K23, Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Award to study to post-injury platelet biology. The award, through the National Institute of General Medical Studies, will support Dr. Kornblith's research through 2023. 

The grant titled “Post-Injury Platelet Biology: Mechanisms and Outcomes”, supports translational patient-oriented research. Specifically, Dr. Kornblith will investigate causal pathways, mechanisms, and associated outcomes of altered post-injury platelet biology in a prospective observational trauma cohort through collection of biospecimens and detailed clinical data.

Dr. Kornblith's proposal represents an innovative approach to studying post-injury platelet biology because it incorporates methods that have not previously been applied together in trauma populations.

The proposal addresses a major gap in understanding of the role of platelets in trauma-induced coagulopathy and will form the basis for identifying associated molecular mechanisms and investigating targeted platelet-based treatments in reduction of morbidity and mortality for hemorrhaging trauma patients.

About Dr. Lucy Kornblith

Surgeon-scientist Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith, MD is an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG).

Dr. Kornblith completed her general surgery residency training at UCSF, remaining there to complete fellowships in Surgical Critical Care and Trauma & Emergency Surgery at ZSFG, the region's largest Level 1 Trauma Center. She was previously awarded a Trauma Research Scholarship for her studies of post-injury platelet biology by the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) and more recently was recruited as an investigator for Phase 2 of Landmark CLOTT Study.