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Sofia Ramström, PhD, Associate Professor

Associate professor
School of Medical Sciences, Cardiovascular Research Centre Örebro University, Sweden
Örebro, Orebro Lan, Sweden

Sofia Ramström is Associate Professor at the School of Medical Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden. She received her PhD in Clinical Chemistry at Linköping University, Sweden in 2003, with a dissertation investigating the role of platelets in blood coagulation, combining techniques such as free oscillation rheometry and flow cytometry. After work in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons as a part of the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, and in the flow cytometry section at ICON Clinical Research, she returned to Sweden and the Department of Clinical Chemistry at Linköping University, where she has been performing experimental and translational research on platelets and coagulation. Since 2017, she is also working as a lecturer and researcher at the School of Medical Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden.

Her main research focus is about understanding how platelets affect blood coagulation, and especially the mechanisms governing the formation of platelet subpopulations, like the procoagulant platelets that play a vital role as catalysts of blood coagulation. Since 1999, an important component of her research has been to develop and evaluate new and innovative ways to study platelet activation and function, especially with flow cytometry, with the aim that these tests will also be able to come into clinical use. Clinical areas of interest include hematology, transfusion medicine and thoracic surgery. Sofia is currently the chair of the ISTH SSC on Platelet Physiology.

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