Former Innovation Fund recipients Dr. Menaki Pai (2011) who is now on the Ontario Science Advisory Table, and Dr. Donald Arnold (2021) https://ifpoc.org/project/antibody-testing-in-covid-19-patients/ who is medical director of the Platelet Immunology Lab at McMaster University are working to understand the kind of patients likely to experience the rare type of blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.
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McMaster lab to screen for rare antibody that causes blood clots after AstraZeneca vaccine