Harold R. Roberts

Dr. Harald Roberts is the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Medicine and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina. For twenty years, he served as Director of the UNC Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, which he founded in 1978. He is a former Director of the Clinical Coagulation Laboratory at North Carolina Memorial Hospital (now UNC Hospitals) and former Director of UNC’s Comprehensive Hemophilia Diagnostic and Treatment Center, which was re-named in his honor in 1999. Dr. Roberts made pioneering research into blood clotting factor IX, developed the first highly purified dried concentrate of blood clotting factor VIII—the primary therapy for haemophilia—and was an early advocate of the use of recombinant materials in treating blood disorders. He has received many prizes, including the Distinguished Career Award for Contributions to Haemostasis from the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, for which he served as executive director for 12 years. He earned both his undergraduate and medical degrees at UNC.

Back to NNHF Council