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ASH awards seven Bridge Grant awards
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ASH presented Bridge Grant awards to seven researchers.
The 1-year, $150,000 awards provide critical interim support for hematology research proposals that, despite earning high scores, could not be funded by the NIH due to considerable funding reductions.
Recipients are Diane F. Jelinek, PhD, of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.; Mark Y. Chiang, MD, PhD, of the University of Michigan; Fotis Asimakopoulos, MD, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin; Tatiana V. Byzova, PhD, of Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Frits van Rhee, MD, PhD, of the University of Arkansas; W. Stratford May, MD, PhD, of the University of Florida; and Lisa Borghesi, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh.
ASH committed $9 million in society funds in 2012 to create the Bridge Grant program.
“Since 2003, congressional appropriations for NIH have stagnated and failed to keep pace with inflation. As a result, research dollars have become much more competitive, and researchers whose projects might have been funded five years ago might not be funded today,” ASH President Linda J. Burns, MD, of the University of Minnesota said in a press release. “The ASH Bridge Grant program is designed to help bridge talented hematology investigators to their next NIH research grant by funding their efforts to gather additional data to ultimately strengthen their next application.”