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ASH presents Scholar Awards
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ASH announced the recipients of the society’s 2018 Scholar Awards.
The awards — presented to hematologists in the United States and Canada who conduct basic, translational or clinical research — provide $100,000 for fellows and $150,000 for junior faculty over a 2- to 3-year period. The support is intended to help individuals dedicated to careers in hematology research as they transition from training programs to careers as independent investigators.
“This award not only provides financial support, but also validates the importance of the research focus of hematologists who are establishing their careers as independent investigators,” ASH President Kenneth C. Anderson, MD, director of Lebow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics and Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, said in an ASH-issued press release. “We are proud to be supporting the next generation of scholars in hematology as they will play a critical role in moving the field forward.”
Fourteen basic research fellows received 2018 Scholar Awards. They are: Laura Barreyro, PhD, of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Tomasz Brzoska, PhD, of University of Pittsburgh; David Gibb, MD, PhD, of Yale School of Medicine; Zhaohui Gu, PhD, of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Zachary Hunter, PhD, of Harvard Medical School; Moonjung Jung, MD, of The Rockefeller University; Stanley Lee, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Nikoleta Psatha, PhD, of University of Washington School of Medicine; Lindsay Rein, MD, of Duke University Medical Center; Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli, PhD, of Boston Children’s Hospital; Srividya Swaminathan, PhD, of Stanford University; Carlos Villa, MD, PhD, of University of Pennsylvania; Kira Young, PhD, of The Jackson Laboratory; and Xiaotian Zhang, PhD, of Van Andel Institute.
Three clinical research fellows received awards. They are: Mark Geyer, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Aaron Goldberg, MD, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and Lydia Pecker, MD, of Johns Hopkins University.
The following basic junior faculty received awards: Lapo Alinari, MD, PhD, of The Ohio State University; Jeffrey Bednarski, MD, PhD, of Washington University in St. Louis; Chun-Wei Chen, PhD, of Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope; Brandon Hadland, MD, PhD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Children’s Hospital; Alisa Lee Sherick, MD, of University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus; Megan McNerney, MD, PhD, of The University of Chicago; Faiyaz Notta, PhD, of University Health Network; Robert Signer, PhD, of University of California, San Diego; David Sykes, MD, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital; and Nan Zhu, PhD, of BloodCenter of Wisconsin Inc.
The following clinical junior faculty received awards: Hema Dave, MD, of Children’s National Health System; Jeremie Estepp, MD, of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; Jae Park, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; and Sara Sadreameli, MD, of Johns Hopkins University.
Dan Landau, MD, PhD, received the 2017 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement. The award is presented to the current ASH Scholar with the highest-scoring abstract for the ASH Annual Meeting, as determined by the appointed abstract reviewers.
Landau is assistant professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medical College, as well as a core member of New York Genome Center.