Rate My Professor Claire Whyte

Dr Claire Whyte is an Advanced Research Fellow at the Aberdeen Cardiovascular and Diabetes Centre, Institute of Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition at the University of Aberdeen. She obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Aberdeen in 2009 through the Rowett Research Institute of Nutrition and Health. Her research focuses on the cellular regulation of fibrinolysis and the role of platelets in directing this process. She has investigated fibrinolytic dysregulation in disease contexts including COVID-19, deep vein thrombosis, stroke, and cancer-associated thrombosis. Dr Whyte was the first recipient of the Friends of Anchor Transition to Independence Fellowship and holds current British Heart Foundation funding to study dysregulated fibrinolysis in cancer-associated thrombosis. She has received the D. Collen Young Investigator Award runner-up in both 2018 and 2023. Key publications include Platelet factor XIII-A regulates platelet function and promotes clot retraction and stability published in 2023, All tangled up: interactions of the fibrinolytic and innate immune systems published in 2023, and Activated platelets retain and protect most of their factor XIII-A cargo from proteolytic activation and degradation published in 2024. She serves on the British Society for Haemostasis and Thrombosis Committee as well as the Vice-Chair role for the International Society for Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis, and holds additional internal committee positions including University Research Committee ECR Representative and Postdoctoral Research Committee Institute of Medical Sciences Representative.

Dr Whyte has contributed to supervision of previous PhD students and participates in multiple funded projects as co-investigator addressing topics such as bleeding after childbirth, arterial thrombosis in type II diabetes, and targeting impaired fibrinolysis in acute coronary syndrome. Her work appears in journals including Blood Advances, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, and Frontiers in Medicine. She maintains active involvement in researcher development networks and health and safety committees within the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition.