Steven Mckenzie

Dr. Steven McKenzie received his MD and PhD from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He did clinical training and postdoctoral research training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. McKenzie is Thomas D.M. Cardeza Professor of Medicine and Director of Hematology and the Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. He is a world-renowned physician-scientist and expert in platelet biology, with a focus on immune-mediated thrombocytopenia and thrombosis syndromes. He also is co-inventor of VLX-1005 and developer of the gold standard clinically relevant heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis mouse model utilized by the research community.