The Pia Glas-Greenwalt Memorial Lecture
Pia Glas was born in 1932, in Sigmaringen, Germany, and studied medicine at the Eberhard-Karl University Medical School in Tubingen. The direction of her career was evident in her Doctoral thesis, which was entitled "Fibrinolgenolysis following plasminogen activation by streptokinase." She continued postdoctoral training with Dr. Tage Astrup to Washington, DC, at the James F. Mitchell Foundation. She returned briefly to Tubingen for further training in medicine and certification in hematology, but came back to the Mitchell Foundation in 1970. It was there that she married Tibby Greenwalt. When Dr. Astrup retired, Dr. Glas-Greenwalt was promptly recruited to be the civilian Head of the Coagulation Division, Department of Experimental Pathology, at the Naval Research Institute in Bethesda, MD.
Dr. Glas-Greenwalt moved to the University of Cincinnati in 1979, where she continued her research in fibrinolysis. In the early 1980's, she was a pioneer in the field of plasma proteins being used as inhibitors for t-PA and urokinase. She identified increased plasma levels of what proved to be plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
In 1990, Dr. Glas-Greenwalt moved to the Good Samaritan Hospital to create and direct a state-of-the-art Fibrinolysis/Special Coagulation laboratory. She had long investigated the properties and therapeutic uses of the defibrinating enzyme Ancrod, and at the time of her death in 1996, she was engaged in laboratory analyses for 600 patients, in a study of Ancrod as therapy for ischemic stroke.
The Pia Glas-Greenwalt Memorial Lecturers
| 1999 David J. Loskutoff 2001 George J. Broze |
2003 J. Ironside 2005 Douglas Vaughan |
2007 John H. Griffin 2009 Andreas Greinacher |