Colton Strong (he/him/his)

PhD Candidate
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Colton Strong, BSc (Honours) McGill University, is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Centre for Blood Research. He is a using lipid nanoparticle technology to functionalize donor platelets as a next-generation cell therapy and is motivated to use nanomedicines to treat blood diseases and coagulopathy. Colton is a Canadian Blood Services Graduate Fellow and Killam Doctoral Scholar.

Presentation(s):

• OC 23.1 - Transfusion of RNA-Edited Platelets in a Rodent Model of Polytrauma: A Pilot Study

  Sunday, June 25, 2023
  14:45 – 15:00 ET

• PB0135 - Expression of an Antifibrinolytic Peptide in Donor Platelets Extends Clot Stability

  Sunday, June 25, 2023
  18:30 – 19:30 ET

• PB0392 - Probing Biosynthetic Pathways of Platelets

  Sunday, June 25, 2023
  18:30 – 19:30 ET

• OC 61.1 - Optimization and Delivery of Endogenous mRNA UTRs using LNPs to Control Exogenous Protein Expression in Platelets

  Tuesday, June 27, 2023
  14:45 – 15:00 ET