Professors receive ASH’s Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize
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Peter Hillmen, MD, PhD, and John Atkinson, MD, will receive the Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize at this year’s ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition.
The award — named after the late Ernest Beutler, MD, a physician scientist and past president of ASH — recognizes major advances related to a single topic.
ASH presents the award to two individuals — one whose work enabled advances in basic science, and another for achievements in clinical science or translational research.
Hillmen is emeritus professor at University of Leeds School of Medicine in the United Kingdom. He will be recognized for his 30 years of research on paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Atkinson is a professor of medicine and molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He will be recognized for his discovery of membrane cofactor protein, now commonly referred to as CD46.
Both breakthroughs have furthered the understanding of the complement system and its role in the manifestation of blood disorders, according to an ASH press release.
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