{"id":982,"date":"2017-05-25T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mstp.med.virginia.edu\/?p=982"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:15:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:15:38","slug":"congratulations-goldfarb-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mstp\/2017\/05\/25\/congratulations-goldfarb-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Goldfarb Lab!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mstp.med.virginia.edu\/files\/2017\/05\/goldfarb_and_elagib_header_3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-983\" src=\"https:\/\/mstp.med.virginia.edu\/files\/2017\/05\/goldfarb_and_elagib_header_3-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mstp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2017\/05\/goldfarb_and_elagib_header_3-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mstp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2017\/05\/goldfarb_and_elagib_header_3-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mstp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2017\/05\/goldfarb_and_elagib_header_3-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mstp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/455\/2017\/05\/goldfarb_and_elagib_header_3-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MSTP mentor, Adam Goldfarb and his team have recently been recognized for their research in the area of blood platelet creation and the &#8220;Master Switch&#8221; that could assist in the production of platelets specifically in neonates. Nearly 30% of preemies are affected by\u00a0neonatal thrombocytopenia and many will require platelet transfusions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about their exciting discovery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.virginia.edu\/content\/blood-discovery-could-benefit-preemies-help-end-platelet-shortages-0?utm_source=DailyReport&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=news\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSTP mentor, Adam Goldfarb and his team have recently been recognized for their research in the area of blood platelet creation and the &#8220;Master Switch&#8221; that could assist in the production of platelets specifically in neonates. Nearly 30% of preemies are affected by\u00a0neonatal thrombocytopenia and many will require platelet transfusions. Read more about their exciting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlights-and-news","tag-delete"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Congratulations, Goldfarb Lab! - MSTP: Medical Scientist Training Program<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mstp\/2017\/05\/25\/congratulations-goldfarb-lab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congratulations, Goldfarb Lab! - MSTP: Medical Scientist Training Program\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MSTP mentor, Adam Goldfarb and his team have recently been recognized for their research in the area of blood platelet creation and the &#8220;Master Switch&#8221; that could assist in the production of platelets specifically in neonates. 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