Prof. John Weisel University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA

John Weisel is a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology. He is a nationally and internationally recognized biophysicist and cell biologist whose main research has been on fibrinogen, factor XIII and other blood clotting proteins. The fundamental processes of fibrin polymerization, fibrinolysis and platelet aggregation have been a major focus... read moreof research. Dr. Weisel has developed novel structural and biophysical methods that have allowed unique studies to understand a variety of aspects of the molecular mechanisms of platelet aggregation, clotting and fibrinolysis.