Dr Paul Harrison BSc, PhD, FRCPath

Paul Harrison

Department of Inflammation and Ageing
Senior Lecturer

Contact details

Address
Department of Inflammation and Ageing
College of Medicine and Health
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Paul Harrison is the Scar Free Foundation Senior Lecturer within the Department of Inflammation and Ageing at the ϳԹ in the UK. He is a Past- President of the British Society of Haemostasis & Thrombosis (BSHT) and a Past-chairman of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Platelet Physiology Scientific and standardization committee. He has published over 180 papers and book chapters/reviews in his field. In 2010 Paul was featured as one of the top 100 healthcare scientists in the UK by the Department of Health.

Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath)
  • Registered Clinical Scientist
  • PhD
  • BSc Biochemistry (Toxicology)

Biography

Paul Harrison is the Scar Free Foundation Senior Lecturer within the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the ϳԹ. He is a Past-President of the British Society of Haemostasis and Thrombosis (BSHT), a Past-chairman of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Platelet Physiology Scientific and standardization committee and co-editor in chief of the International Journal “Platelets”. He has published over 180 papers and book chapters/reviews. In 2010 Paul was featured as one of the top 100 healthcare scientists in the UK by the Department of Health.

Teaching

  • MBChB
    • Personal Mentor for Medical Students
    • Tutor for Infection, Immunology & Haematology (Year 2)
    • Lecturer for SP1 - Clinical Aspects of Immunology, Haematology & Immunity
  • MPharm
    • Lecturer and Tutor
  • BMedSc
    • Lecturer - Vascular Biology and Pathology (Year 1)
    • Lecturer - Immunity and Infection (Year 2)
    • Lecturer - Immunity and Inflammatory Disease (Year 3)
    • Lecturer - Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology (Year 3)

Postgraduate supervision

Paul Harrison is the Scar free Foundation Senior Lecturer within the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing. Dr Harrison is researching into the influence of traumatic injury and burns on the systemic inflammatory response with a particular focus on haemostatic and thrombotic parameters. He is also a member of the Birmingham platelet group.

Current PhD projects include :-
1) Measurement of preplatelets in inherited and acquired thrombocytopenia
2) Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Thermal and Traumatic Injury
3) Measurement of extracellular vesicles in cardiovascular disease by a novel interferometric imaging method

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Dr Paul Harrison directly, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email mds-gradschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our .

Research

Dr Harrison is researching into the influence of traumatic injury and burns on the systemic inflammatory response with a particular focus on haemostatic and thrombotic parameters. He is also a member of the Birmingham platelet group and the Genotyping and Phenotyping of Platelets Study (GAPP). His main interests are platelet biology, thrombopoeisis, platelet function testing, extracellular vesicles and regenerative medicine.

Other activities

  • Past-President of the British Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis
  • Past-Chairman of the Platelet Physiology Scientific and Standardization committee of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • Board member of the International Council for Standardization in Haematology (ICSH)
  • Co-editor in chief of  
  • Member of the editorial board for the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • Winner of 2009 Sysmex Outstanding Science Award, Istanbul, May 2009
  • Featured in the publication “” – as one of top 100 healthcare scientists within the UK by the Department of Health, 2009/2010

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Tullie, S, Asiri, A, Acharjee, A, Moiemen, NS, Lord, JM, Harrison, P & Hazeldine, J 2025, '', Cells, vol. 14, no. 11, 821.

Montague, S, Price, J, Pennycott, K, Pavey, N, Slater, E, Thirlwell, I, Kemble, S, Monteiro, C, Redmond-Motteram, L, Lawson, N, Reynolds, K, Fratter, C, Bignell, P, Groenheide, A, Huskens, D, Laat, BD, Pike, J, Poulter, N, Thomas, S, Lowe, G, Lancashire, J, Harrison, P & Morgan, N 2024, '', Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

Asiri, A, Hazeldine, J, Moiemen, N & Harrison, P 2024, '', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 25, no. 13, 7216.

Chen, Y-Y, Sullivan, J, Hanley, S, Price, J, Tariq, M, McIlvenna, LC, Whitham, M, Sharma-Oates, A, Harrison, P, Lord, J & Hazeldine, J 2024, '', Advanced Biology.

Asiri, A, Price, J, Hazeldine, J, McGee, K, Veiga Sardeli, A, Chen, Y-Y, Sullivan, J, Moiemen, N & Harrison, P 2024, '', Platelets, vol. 35, no. 1, 39494714.

Welsh, JA, Goberdhan, DCI, O'Driscoll, L, Buzas, EI, Blenkiron, C, Bussolati, B, Cai, H, Di Vizio, D, Driedonks, TAP, Erdbrügger, U, Falcon‐Perez, JM, Fu, QL, Hill, AF, Lenassi, M, Lim, SK, Mahoney, MG, Mohanty, S, Möller, A, Nieuwland, R, Ochiya, T, Sahoo, S, Torrecilhas, AC, Zheng, L, Zijlstra, A, Abuelreich, S, Bagabas, R, Bergese, P, Bridges, EM, Brucale, M, Burger, D, Carney, RP, Cocucci, E, Crescitelli, R, Hanser, E, Harris, AL, Haughey, NJ, Hendrix, A, Ivanov, AR, Jovanovic‐Talisman, T, Kruh‐Garcia, NA, Ku'ulei‐lyn Faustino, V, Kyburz, D, Lässer, C, Lennon, KM, Lötvall, J, Maddox, AL, Martens‐Uzunova, ES, Mizenko, RR, Newman, LA, Théry, C, MISEV Organizing Committee., Harrison, P & Witwer, KW 2024, '', Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, vol. 13, no. 2, e12404.

Tullie, S, Nicholson, T, Bishop, J, McGee, K, Asiri, A, Sullivan, J, Chen, Y-Y, Veiga Sardeli, A, Belli, T, Harrison, P, Moiemen, N, Lord, J & Hazeldine, J 2024, '', Frontiers in immunology, vol. 15, 1416820.

Alenazy, F, Harbi, M, Kavanagh, D, Price, J, Brady, P, Hargreaves, O, Harrison, P, Slater, A, Tiwari, A, Nicolson, P, Connolly, D, Kirchhof, P, Kalia, N, Jandrot-Perrus, M, Mangin, PH, Watson, S & Thomas, MR 2023, '', Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 3236-3251.

Price, J, Hazeldine, J, Hisada, Y, Bae-Jump, V, Luther, T, Mackman, N & Harrison, P 2023, '', Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, vol. 7, no. 4, 13.

Kemble, S, Dalby, A, Lowe, G, Nicolson, P, Watson, S, Senis, Y, Thomas, S & Harrison, P 2022, '', Blood Advances, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 2932–2946.

Mahida, RY, Price, J, Lugg, ST, Li, H, Parekh, D, Scott, A, Harrison, P, Matthay, MA & Thickett, DR 2022, '', American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology, vol. 322, no. 4, pp. L617-L624.

Mezzano, D, Harrison, P, Andrew L. Frelinger, III, Mumford, AD, Noris, P, Lordkipanidzé, M & Gresele, P 2022, '', Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 2127-2135.

Harrison, P, Price, J, Didembourg, M, Johnstone, A, Baldwin, S, Veronneau, M, Baertlein, D, Shi, X & Machin, S 2022, '', Platelets, vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 1-9.

PATH-2 trial group 2022, '', Bone and Joint Journal, vol. 104-B, no. 11, pp. 1256-1265.

Colicchia, M, Schrottmaier, WC, Perrella, G, Reyat, JS, Begum, J, Slater, A, Price, J, Clark, JC, Zhi, Z, Simpson, M, Bourne, J, Poulter, NS, Khan, AO, Nicolson, PLR, Pugh, MR, Harrison, P, Iqbal, AJ, Rainger, GE, Watson, SP, Thomas, MR, Mutch, NJ, Assinger, A & Rayes, J 2022, '', Blood.