**5. Acknowledgements**

We thank present and past members of the Simpson-Haidaris lab and our collaborators for all their contributions to elucidate the role of fibrin(ogen) in wound repair, endothelial cell biology and cancer progression. Our work has been supported by numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health NHLBI and NIAID, the Breast Cancer Research Program sponsored by the Department of Defense, the Komen Race for the Cure Foundation, and the American Heart Association.
