Professor of Biochemistry Paula Tracy, Ph.D. stands with all the honorees at the Biennial Awards for Contributions to Hemostasis held during the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2017 Congress in Berlin. (Photo courtesy of ISTH)
Paula Tracy, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and director of Foundations at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, received a Distinguished Career Award at the International Society for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH) 26th International Congress in Berlin, Germany on July 10.
The ISTH Distinguished Career Awards are presented biennially to five individuals whose career contributions and service to the Society have significantly advanced the scientific community’s understanding of diseases and disorders that affect hemostasis. In the opinion of their peers, these individuals have made significant contributions to research and education in blood coagulation.
This award is one of two Biennial Awards for Contributions to Hemostasis (BACH). This is the 18th time since the inauguration of this award that honorees (usually 5 per Congress) have been named. The only other UVM faculty member to be awarded this honor was Kenneth Mann, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry emeritus.
Tracy, who joined the UVM faculty in 1984, served as an ISTH council member from 2010-2016. A world-renowned researcher in blood clotting, she is widely published and has mentored well over 100 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, as well as postdoctoral fellows. She is particularly passionate about mentoring young female scientists, and has been actively involved in mentoring initiatives for women through the ISTH since 2009.
In a 2014 article in the College's Vermont Medicine magazine, ISTH’s Executive Director Thomas Reiser said of Tracy that “She’s been one of our best leaders that I’ve ever experienced because of her diplomacy, her ability to bring a group together and work through very complex issues.”
Tracy's former mentee and UVM graduate alumnus Rodney Camire, Ph.D.'98, also received one of five Investigator Recognition Awards at the ISTH awards ceremony. He is currently an associate professor of pediatrics at the Perleman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Established in 1969, ISTH is the premier international society focused on blood clotting, with more than 4,000 members.