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Ellinor Peerschke
Ellinor Peerschke (May 7, 1954 – October 13, 2023) was an American scientist specializing in coagulation, Complement system, complement, and platelet biology. Early life and education Peerschke was born in Braunschweig, Germany. She grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers and earned her PhD from New York University in 1980, studying under Dr. Marjorie Zucker. Career Peerschke held faculty positions at SUNY Stony Brook, Weill Cornell Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Memorial Sloan Kettering. At Memorial Sloan Kettering, she was Vice Chair for Research, Education and Development in the Department of Laboratory Medicine. She directed the hospital hematology and coagulation laboratories and shaped international guidelines on laboratory diagnosis and treatment of bleeding and clotting disorders. Peerschke worked with Barry Coller to establish how the binding of fibrinogen to Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa is necessary for platelet aggregation. Their work on the ...
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Braunschweig
Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the North Sea via the rivers Aller (Germany), Aller and Weser. In 2024, it had a population of 272,417. The Braunschweig-Wolfsburg-Salzgitter region had 1.02 million residents including the cities Wolfsburg and Salzgitter, it is the second largest urban center in Lower Saxony after Hanover. The urban agglomeration of Braunschweig had a population of 551,000 with almost 45% having a migration background, making it the most diverse urban agglomeration in the whole Niedersachsen, state. The city consists of 37.5% immigrants (approximately 102,000) with a high amount of migrants coming from other European countries, Asia and Africa. 73% of the Germans residing in Braunschweig come from different parts of the country, particularly North Rhine West ...
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