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Heart association honors scientist
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Bruce Furie, MD, chief of the division of hemostasis and thrombosis at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been named a 2014 Distinguished Scientist by the American Heart Association.
The award recognizes association members for significant, original and sustained scientific contributions that have advanced the association’s mission of “building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke.”
Furie, a HemOnc Today Editorial Board member, specializes in hemostasis and thrombosis research. His work has improved understanding of the mechanisms that underlie the formation of blood clots, one of the primary causes of heart attack and stroke.
“Bruce Furie’s work has provided the medical community with critically important insights into exactly how blood clots form,” Mark Zeidel, MD, chair of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said in a press release. “His one-of-a-kind widefield and confocal imaging system has shown that a critical series of enzymes known for their participation in protein synthesis are also required for thrombus formation.”