Alan Michelson
Director, Center for Platelet Function Studies and University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, U.S.A.

Michelson’s Platelets won the Best Book in Medical Science Award from the Association of American Publishers.

Alan Michelson has authored more than 300 research publications and is an inventor of two US patents: the Detection of Procoagulant Platelet-derived Microparticles in Whole Blood and Platelet Analysis in Whole Blood. He has completed medical training on a Fulbright Scholarship at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital, all in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been a principal investigator on over 70 major grants (including from the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association). Michelson has also been an invited speaker at over 100 major medical conferences and seminars in the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Israel, and Australia. He is currently Chairman of the Platelet Physiology Scientific Subcommittee of the Scientific and Standardization Committee (SSC) and International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH).

Author of:
Platelets, 2nd Edition (Now Available!)