{"id":279199,"date":"2013-10-11T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T07:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=279199"},"modified":"2013-10-12T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T22:17:48","slug":"tyler-researcher-gets-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=279199","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Researcher Gets Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/10\/Vijay-Rao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/10\/Vijay-Rao-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vijay Rao\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-279200\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; A UT Health Northeast researcher has been awarded a $100,000 grant to continue work on blood clotting. Researcher Vijay Rao, Ph.D., received the one-year grant from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to continue his study of how blood clotting works, with the goal of learning how to fix it when it goes wrong. Dr. Rao, a professor of biochemistry, and his team are investigating a protein called tissue factor that triggers the clotting process. Most tissue factor in cells remains idle until galvanized into action by an injury or disease condition, Dr. Rao said. The goal of Dr. Rao&#8217;s research team is to understand how tissue factor is activated and deactivated, so that blood clots that lead to heart attacks, strokes and other serious diseases can be prevented. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rao&#8217;s research on blood clotting has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the past 25 years, including 12 years of continuous support for a single grant. However, because of recent cuts to the NIH budget, funding for this grant was not renewed earlier this year. Other research conducted by Dr. Rao is currently underwritten by a $1.4 million NIH grant. The ASH Bridge Grants are designed to support research by scientists like Dr. Rao, whose grants received NIH scores that, while high, were below the funding cutoff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A UT Health Northeast researcher has been awarded a $100,000 grant to continue work on blood clotting. Researcher Vijay Rao, Ph.D., received the one-year grant from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to continue his study of how blood clotting works, with the goal of learning how to fix it when it goes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=279199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Researcher Gets Grant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 22:17:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279201,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279199\/revisions\/279201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}