Two notices from the ISFP

1. The International Society for Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis (ISFP) is seeking candidates to be considered for the Council "Class 2016". To be eligible, candidates need to be current members of the ISFP. Duties will include active participation in the direction of the ISFP and to attend the ISFP council meetings held during the biannual ISFP and ISTH congresses. To be considered for nomination to Class 2016 or to nominate a colleague, please contact the ISFP Executive Director, Roger Lijnen, before May 31, 2010.

2. The ISFP is also seeking expression of interest from those in the field to host the biannual 2014 ISFP Congress. The ISFP congress is the most significant event on the ISFP calender. Any interested parties should contact the ISFP Executive Director, Prof Roger Lijnen.

2009 Pier M. Mannucci Young Investigator prizewinners

The Mannucci Prizes are awarded in honour of Pier M. Mannucci, the Journal's first Editor-in-Chief, for the best articles by Young Investigators under 35 years of age. The prizes are made possible by a generous contribution from Bayer HealthCare.

The 2009 prizes were awarded to:

• Carsten Baldauf for the article Shear-induced unfolding activates von Willebrand factor A2 domain for proteolysis (Volume 7, Issue 12 pp. 2096-2105)
• Jianguo Wang for the article Levels of microparticle tissue factor activity correlate with coagulation activation in endotoxemic mice (Volume 7, Issue 7 pp. 1092-1098)
• Kannan Meganathan for the article Molecular defects in ITGA2B and ITGB3 genes in patients with Glanzmann thrombasthenia (Volume 7, Issue 11 pp. 1878-1885)
• Tatiana Lobo for the article Ixolaris, a tissue factor inhibitor, blocks primary tumor growth and angiogenesis in a glioblastoma model (Volume 7, Issue 11 pp. 1855-1864)
• Adam Rose for the article Warfarin dose management affects INR control (Volume 7, Issue 1 pp. 94-101)

We wish to congratulate the authors for their achievement.

McGill Thrombosis Fellowship 2011-2012 at Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Quebec

The JGH Thrombosis Program is currently accepting applications for a one year fellowship (July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012) to acquire and consolidate expertise in Thrombosis. Specific areas of clinical activity include the Thrombosis Clinic, Anticoagulation Clinic and In-patient Thrombosis Consultation Service. Our Thrombosis Program also encompasses a broad range of research activities that relate to diagnosis, risk factors and treatment of venous and arterial thromboembolic disease. To obtain more information please contact Dr. Susan Kahn at 514-340-7587; susan.kahn@mcgill.ca.

2008 Pier M. Mannucci Young Investigator prizewinners

The Mannucci Prizes are awarded in honour of Pier M. Mannucci, the Journal's first Editor-in-Chief, for the best articles by Young Investigators under 35 years of age. The prizes are made possible by a generous contribution from Bayer HealthCare.

The 2008 prizes were awarded to:

• M Coppens for the article Testing for inherited thrombophilia does not reduce recurrence of venous thrombosis (September issue: 1474-7.)
• A. F. Paes Leme for the article Bothrops protease A, a unique highly glycosylated serine proteinase, is a potent, specific fibrinogenolytic agent (August issue: 1363-72.)
• J Tardos for the article SR proteins ASF/SF2 and SRp55 are critical to tissue factor biosynthesis in human monocytes (May issue: 877-84)
• X Zhang for the article Modulation of immune response with CTLA4-Ig-induced anergic T cells in chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (January issue: 158-65)

We wish to congratulate the authors for their achievement.

HASLAM, Richard John
We sadly announce that Dr. Richard Haslam died in Hamilton, Ontario on May 15, 2009 at the age of 71 years, after a long illness. Born in Wigton, Cumberland, England, Richard was an internationally respected scientist who pioneered much of the work on platelet activation pathways. One of the last PhD students of Hans Krebs in Oxford; his life's work centered on the area of signal transduction, including the roles of GTP-binding proteins, phospholipases, protein kinases and cyclic nucleotides in the regulation of cell function. He is perhaps best known for cloning the major substrate for protein kinase C in platelets, and naming this pleckstrin, a term now used in all major biochemical textbooks when referring to pleckstrin homology domains. The focus of his work was on cells important in cardiovascular disease, particularly blood platelets. While some of his early work was performed at the Royal College of Surgeons and with I.C.I. Pharmaceuticals in Alderley Park, England, he soon began an association with McMaster University that led to his permanent recruitment in 1972. He was appointed Professor Emeritus in McMaster University in 2003 and had remained active in research. He was universally recognized for the originality, quality and thoroughness of his research and in total published over 70 primary papers, including 7 in Nature. His wife Beryl, their three children, and his many colleagues in Canada and around the world will sorely miss Richard.
Alan Nurden and Steve Watson

Welcome to the new look JTH Editors' home page. The site has been redesigned to give you more information about the Journal and its editorial team (see accompanying web pages). An important change is that we will no longer be hosting the Journal's content on this web site. In order to continue reading JTH online, you will need to use the Blackwell service, which is available at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/JTH or via the links from this page.

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Best wishes

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis Editorial Team

Communications of the Scientific and Standardization Committee

Official communications of the Scientific and Standardisation Committee (SSC) of ISTH are published in the Society's official journal, the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Such communications must be reviewed and approved within the sponsoring subcommittee, followed by review by the Publications Committee of the SSC (information on the membership is available at the ISTH website).

Following SSC approval, the paper may be published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis either as an SSC Communication or as an Original Article. Either a short report of approximately 1000 words or a paper in the format of an Original Article must be submitted to ISTH/SSC, who will review it on behalf of the journal. Acceptance for publication will be the decision of the journal Editors-in-Chief. In either case the work will be published in the SSC section of the journal, which is Open Access as a service to the scientific community. Submissions as Original Articles, not accepted for publication, may be resubmitted in the shorter form. Supplementary text may be published on the ISTH website and will carry the same DOI number as the print version.

2007 Pier M. Mannucci Young Investigator prizewinners

The Mannucci Prizes are awarded in honour of Pier M. Mannucci, the Journal's first Editor-in-Chief, for the best articles by Young Investigators under 35 years of age. The prizes are made possible by a generous contribution from Bayer HealthCare.

The 2007 prizes were awarded to:

• Mr S Calaminus (UK) for the article 'MyosinIIa contractility is required for maintenance of platelet structure during spreading on collagen and contributes to thrombus stability' (October)
• Dr E Ceresa (Belgium) for the article 'Comparative evaluation of stable TAFIa variants: importance of a-helix 9 and b-sheet 11 for TAFIa (in)stability' (October)
• Dr S Gouw (the Netherlands) for the article 'Treatment characteristics and the risk of inhibitor development: a multicenter cohort study among previously untreated patients with severe hemophilia A' (July)
• Dr Y Kozuma (Japan) for the article 'Continuous expression of Bcl-xL protein during megakaryopoiesis is post-translationally regulated by thrombopoietin-mediated Akt activation, which prevents the cleavage of Bcl-xL' (June)
• Dr H Lemmerhirt (USA) for the article 'Genetic regulation of plasma von Willebrand factor levels: quantitative trait loci analysis in a mouse model' (February)
• Dr X Zheng (USA) for the article 'Non-hematopoietic EPCR regulates the coagulation and inflammatory responses during endotoxemia' (July)

We wish to congratulate the authors for their achievement.

good news for authors about the printing of colour figures

From 2008, colour figures in JTH will be charged at a rate of US $500 per page. This is a reduction from the previous fee of $800 per page.

We are also pleased to announce Colour on the Web. This free service enables authors to publish in black and white in the printed journal but in full colour in the online version. Authors wishing to take advantage of this service need only inform the editorial office upon acceptance of their manuscript.