ASH presents research awards to 12 fellows

ASH selected 12 fellows to receive awards designed to encourage careers in academic hematology by providing protected research time during training.

ASH Research Training Award for Fellows recipients will get $70,000 to support a research project between during the 1-year program period. Most of the money will support recipients’ salaries, but part cover research supplies and travel to scientific meetings.

“It’s often difficult to find sufficient time to conduct high-quality research during training,” ASH President Kenneth C. Anderson, MD, of Lebow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics and Jerome Lipper Myeloma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, said in a society-issued press release. “By supporting protected time for scientific exploration for these talented fellows, ASH is giving them the opportunity to conduct quality research, which will lead to academic appointments and future research funding.”

Recipients are Akshay Sharma, MBBS, of University of Tennessee; Allison Remiker, MD, of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; Ami Patel, MD, of University of Utah; Beth Winger, MD, PhD, of University of California; Hojun Li, MD, PhD, of Boston Children’s Hospital; Kandace Gollomp, MD, of University of Pennsylvania; Kelly Bolton, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Pamela Sung, MD, PhD, of University of Pennsylvania; Ryan Woods, MD, of Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Sarah Buckley, MD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Seongseok Yun, MD, PhD, of University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine; and Tian Yi Zhang, MD, PhD, of Stanford University.