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ASH presents Scholar Awards to fellows, junior faculty
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ASH presented 2017 Scholar Awards to more than two dozen fellows and junior faculty who are dedicated to careers in hematology research.
The Scholar Awards — which provide up to $100,000 for fellows and up to $150,000 for junior faculty — support these individuals as they transition from training programs to careers as independent investigators.
Recipients included the following basic research fellows: Grazia Abou Ezzi, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; Kelly Arcipowski, PhD, of Northwestern University; Jeevisha Bajaj, PhD, of University of California, San Diego; Tae Kon Kim, MD, PhD, of Yale University; Kellie Machlus, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Anna Protopopova, PhD, of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Marco Ruella, MD, of University of Pennsylvania; Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; and Andrew Volk, PhD, of Northwestern University.
Clinical research fellow recipients were Melanie Fields, MD, MSCI, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; Erin Peckham-Gregory, PhD, MPH, of Baylor College of Medicine; and Eric Smith, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Basic junior faculty recipients were: Margarida Almeida Santos, PhD, MS, BS, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Craig Byersdorfer, MD, PhD, of University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Shuaiying Cui, PhD, of Boston Medical Center; Jarrod Dudakov, PhD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Renata Grozovsky, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Sanggu Kim, PhD, of The Ohio State University; Dan Landau, MD, PhD, of Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Genome Center; Emily Mace, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine; Jeffrey Magee, MD, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis; Christopher Ott, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Elli Papaemmanuil, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and Vikram Paralkar, MD, of University of Pennsylvania.
Clinical junior faculty recipients were Premal Lulla, MD, of Baylor College of Medicine; Alice Mims, MD, MSCR, of The Ohio State University; and Hong Zheng, MD, PhD, of The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.
Christopher Sturgeon, PhD, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis received the 2016 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement. The award is presented to the ASH Scholar with the highest-scoring abstract for the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.