A Lifetime of Achievement, Driven by Sheer Excitement: Dr. Richard Aster Receives 2019 Wallace H. Coulter Award
Richard Aster, MD, has been awarded the 2019 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. He is a professor in the departments of medicine and pathology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a Senior Investigator at the BloodCenter of Wisconsin –...
ASH Recognizes Representative Tom Cole and Leaders From NIDDK, Dr. Terry Bishop, and NCI, Dr. William Merritt
ASH will be presenting Representative Tom Cole (R-OK) with the 2019 Public Service Award, and former National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Training and Hematology Program Director Terry Bishop, PhD, and former National Cancer...
2019 Outstanding Abstract Achievement Awards
ASH is pleased to recognize the following abstract presenters who received the highest ranking in their categories of undergraduate student, medical student, graduate student, resident physician, and post-doctoral fellow. Outstanding Abstract Achievement Award winners...
Dr. Nicole Cruz Encourages Trainees With an Interest in Research to Apply for RTAF
The ASH Research Training Award for Fellows (RTAF) is an award open to both MD and MD-PhD researchers between their second and fifth year of fellowship. The program is designed to encourage junior researchers in hematology, hematology/oncology, and other...
Philip Greenberg, MD, to Present the 2019 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture
Monday at 9:00 a.m., Philip Greenberg, MD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington in Seattle will be awarded the 2019 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize in recognition of his innovative contributions to the development of T-cell...
Supporting Hematology’s Future: The ASH Scholar Award
The ASH Scholar Award is the Society’s longest-standing award program and one of the most highly regarded. For almost three decades, ASH has supported hundreds of fellows and junior faculty in both basic and clinical/translational research by providing partial salary...
Supporting Hematology’s Future: ASH Scholar Award Alums
The ASH Scholar Award is the Society’s longest-standing award program and one of the most highly regarded. For almost three decades, ASH has supported hundreds of fellows and junior faculty in both basic and clinical/translational research by providing partial salary...
Meaningful Outreach Knows No Borders
Now entering its third cycle, the ASH Global Research Award was created especially for trainees and early- career investigators based in countries outside of the United States and Canada. It is intended to support these hematologists during the critical period between...
Follow Your Passion: Drs. William Eaton and Richard A. Larson Receive 2019 Henry M. Stratton Medal
William Eaton, MD, PhD, of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Richard A. Larson, MD, of University of Chicago, are being presented with the Henry M. Stratton Medal. This award...
Giuseppe Bigi and Mary Rodes Gibson Memorial Awards Recognize Outstanding Trainee Abstracts
Marilena Ciciarello, PhD, of University Hospital of Bologna, has been awarded the 2019 ASH Giuseppe Bigi Memorial Award in Hematopoiesis and Stem Cells. This award was established in 2015 to recognize an Italian trainee based at an Italian institution who has the...
ASH Announces 2019 Abstract Achievement Awards
Each year, ASH offers merit-based Abstract Achievement Awards in the amount of $500 to select individuals to acknowledge the accomplishments of hematologists-in-training. This year’s Abstract Achievement Awards recognize undergraduate students, medical students,...
Mentorship As a Lineage and a Legacy: Drs. Michael DeBaun and Leonard Zon Awarded 2019 ASH Mentor Award
Michael R. DeBaun, MD, of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Leonard Zon, MD, of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, are being recognized for their outstanding support and guidance with the ASH Mentor Award. Dr. DeBaun recalled growing up...
A Serendipitous Journey: Drs. Sriram Krishnaswamy and Jeffrey Weitz Awarded 2019 Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize
The Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize is named after Dr. Ernest Beutler, a past ASH president and physician- scientist with a remarkable career that spanned 50 years. This year, the award is being presented to Sriram Krishnaswamy, PhD, of the Children’s Hospital of...
Monday Offers a Special Symposium and Networking Reception for the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Community
On Monday, December 9, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., immediately following the Special Symposium on the Basic Science of Hemostasis and Thrombosis, meeting attendees can gather to network with colleagues from the hemostasis and thrombosis community. This event encourages...
ASH Announces 2019 Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Awards
The Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award is part of the ASH Abstract Achievement Award program. This award program is meant to encourage minority graduate students in the field of hematology and is part of the broader minority recruitment initiative at...
National Partner Society Abstract Achievement Awards
The National Partner Society Abstract Achievement Awards consist of a $2,000 grant awarded to an international hematologist, who must be a member of the supporting organization and resident of the respective country, to help advance knowledge and inspire continued...
ASH Congratulates the 2019 MRHAP Winners
In 2018 ASH announced an entirely new program for under-represented minority residents, the ASH Minority Resident Hematology Award Program (MRHAP), the goal of which is to provide support for under-represented minority residents to conduct hematology-focused research...
ASH Congratulates the 2019 MMSAP Participants
Since 2004, the ASH Minority Medical Student Award Program (MMSAP) has provided under-represented minority medical students with an opportunity to engage in an eight-to-12-week hematology-related research project under the guidance of an ASH member. In 2016 the...
ASH and IPIG Present Abstract Achievement Award in Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
The International Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria Interest Group (IPIG) is dedicated to enhancing and expanding professional knowledge about paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) and related disorders in order to improve patient treatment and care. ASH and...
With Diversity As a Priority, Everyone Wins
Griffin Rodgers, MD, of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) is awarded the 2019 ASH Award for Leadership in Promoting Diversity. Dr. Rodgers earned the prestigious recognition for his ongoing work on behalf of under-represented...
At the Intersection of Exhilaration and Dedication Dr. Emmanuelle Passegué Wins 2019 William Dameshek Prize
Emmanuelle Passegué, PhD, of Columbia University Irving Medical Center, has been awarded the 2019 William Dameshek Prize. This award is named after the late William Dameshek, MD, a past president of ASH and the original editor of Blood, and is awarded to an early- or...
Reception to Honor Minority Recruitment Initiative Award Recipients, Including Two New ASH-AMFDP Awardees
The Promoting Minorities in Hematology Presentations and Reception will showcase training and research opportunities geared toward increasing the diversity of scholars in the field of hematology. One of the many highlights of the event will be the scientific...