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Ishac Nazy, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Ishac Nazy is an Associate Professor at McMaster University, he is also the Co-Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Transfusion Research. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Physical Sciences from the University of Guelph in 1996. He obtained his Honours Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences from McMaster University in 1998 and 2005, respectively. His research seeks to understand disease mechanisms to improve and/or develop diagnostic tools and therapeutic approaches to improve the health and everyday lives of those affected by immune-mediated platelet disorders. This involves platelet disorders with increased clotting such as heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) as well as those involving bleeding such as immune thrombocytopenia (ITP). Recently, a new syndrome known as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) characterized by the onset of low blood platelets and blood clotting due to adenoviral vector-based COVID-19 vaccines has emerged and is his primary focus.

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