The “Austrian Vascular Biology Organization” again awarded a prize of 500€ for the best publication in the field of vascular biology 2024/25 by an Austrian research group.
This year, the prize went to Johannes Thaler and Carla Tripisciano for their publication in Blood:
Saliva of persons with hemophilia A triggers coagulation via extrinsic tenase complexes. Blood (2024) 144 (25): 2666–2677. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2024025093. This study was even honored by a commentary article in the same issue: “Licking the wound with procoagulant vesicles”: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2024026991
The prize was awarded at the Cardiovascular Research Cluster Meeting on November 3, 2025, where Johannes Thaler briefly presented the publication.
2024 the prize went to Nahla Ibrahim from the group of Christine Brostjan, MedUni Vienna for the publication:
Reducing Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Progression by Blocking Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Depends on Thrombus Formation im Journal: JACC: Basic to Translational Science, Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2024, Pages 342-360
2023 Award :
Platelet p110β mediates platelet-leukocyte interaction and curtails bacterial dissemination in pneumococcal pneumonia:
Waltraud Cornelia Schrottmaier et al….. Alice Assinger:
Cell Reports 2022 Nov 8;41(6):111614. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111614