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Rishabh Singh on NEJM Letter: FVIII Aurora Mutation Shows Increased Activity and Reduced APC Response
Sep 18, 2025, 07:00

Rishabh Singh on NEJM Letter: FVIII Aurora Mutation Shows Increased Activity and Reduced APC Response

Rishabh Singh, an Heme/Onc fellow at Indiana University, posted on X:

“In a letter to the editor of NEJM, authors describe a naturally occurring FVIII variant, Arg590Ser (designated FVIII Aurora), with substantially increased activity and reduced responsiveness to activated protein C as compared with wild-type FVIII.”

Title: A Naturally Occurring Gain-of-Function Mutation in Factor VIII

Authors: Joshua T. Wischmeyer, Christine H. Baird, Julian Grandvallet Contreras,  Alexander Tran, Tzu Phang, Tian Liu, Marilyn J. Manco-Johnson

Rishabh Singh

Read the full version here.

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