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August 2011
Congratulations to Margaret Duffy and Ahad Rahim on their papers being accepted for publication in the Journal of Virology and Gene Therapy respectively.

December 2010
The recommendations of the Working Group on Nomenclature of the Scientific and Standardisation Committee of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis, which John chaired are accepted for publication in Journal of Thrombosis & Haemostasis (A Standard System for Nomenclature of Genetic Variants in Haemostasis).

December 2010
John's presentation at the recent Developments in Protein Interaction Analysis (DiPIA, Barcelona) meeting features in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.
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November 2010
Natalie Ward's paper documenting the development of codon optimised factor VIII expression cassettes for use in gene therapy for haemophilia A is accepted for publication in Blood.
[ ABSTRACT ] [ SUPPLEMENTAL FIGURE ]

June 2010
Raul Alba's paper documenting the retargeting capacity of adenovirus serotype 5 engineered to no longer bind coagulation factor X is accepted for publication in Blood.
[ ABSTRACT ]

June 2010
The coagulation factor database, CoagBase, goes live on the International Society of Thrombosis & Haemostasis web site. John McVey designed this database to provide a resource of information about each coagulation factor, including links to reference cDNA and protein sequences.

September 2009
Jenny Greig's paper on the influence of coagulation factor X on adenovirus serotype 35 and chimeric vectors of Ad5 and Ad35 transduction of liver was published in the October 2009 (volume 17, number 10) issue of Molecular Therapy and made the front cover!
[ COVER ] [ ABSTRACT ] [ FULL TEXT ]

Molecular Therapy cover, volume 17, number 10, October 2009, click for vector image enlargement (PDF)

April 2009
Raul Alba's paper dissecting the role of the adenovirus hexon hypervariable regions on factor X binding and transduction of liver cells was published in the 30 July 2009 (volume 114, number 5) issue of Blood. The paper was selected for an 'inside blood' editorial comment by Eric Kremmer.
[ ABSTRACT ] [ EDITORIAL COMMENT ]

April 2009
The illustration, by Marie Dauenhaeimer, accompanying John McVey's 'inside blood' editorial comment on 'FVIIa gene delivery: potential treatment for hemophilia?' in the 16 April 2009 (volume 13, number 16) issue of Blood was selected for the front cover!
[ COVER ] [ EDITORIAL COMMENT ]

Blood cover, volume 13, number 16, 16 April 2009, click for vector image enlargement