ASH presents medical faculty development program award
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Luis E. Malpica Castillo, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center received the ASH-Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Award.
The award — a partnership between ASH and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — is designed to help increase the number of hematologists from underrepresented backgrounds with academic and research appointments.
The 4-year postdoctoral research award provides fellows aspiring to careers in academic medicine with $420,000 over the course of the program, including research grants, stipends, mentor support, complimentary ASH membership, and support to attend the ASH Annual Meeting and Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Annual Meeting each year of the award.
“ASH is committed to fostering a strong, growing, and diverse hematology workforce that includes a variety of perspectives, talents, and experiences,” ASH President Jane N. Winter, MD, professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and member of Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, said in a press release. “Through our long-standing partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s [Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program], we are honored to support talented hematologists from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds in medicine as they transition from training to faculty positions.”
Malpica Castillo is assistant professor in the department of lymphoma/myeloma at MD Anderson. His research focuses on lymphomas caused by lymphotropic viruses.
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