Supporting Hematology’s Future: The 2020 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...
Opening Doors to Trainees Worldwide: ASH Abstract Achievement Awards and Outstanding Abstract Achievement Awards
Each year, ASH offers merit-based awards to support select trainees with high-scoring annual meeting abstracts who are chosen to present their work at the ASH annual meeting. Trainees include those who fall within one of the following categories: undergraduate...
2020 Global Research Award Winners
Now entering its fourth 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...
2020 Outstanding Abstract Achievement Awards
The ASH Outstanding Abstract Achievement Awards are provided to trainee abstract presenters with the highest scoring abstracts in each of the eligible categories (undergraduate student, medical student, graduate student, resident physician, and post-doctoral fellow)....
With Time on Your Side, the Sky’s the Limit: ASH Research Training Award for Fellows
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 designed to encourage junior researchers in hematology, hematology/oncology, and other hematology-related programs...
National Partner Society Abstract Achievement Awards
The National Partner Society Abstract Achievement Awards are 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 professional development...
2020 ASH Abstract Achievement Awards
The Abstract Achievement Awards are available to trainees (undergraduate student, medical student, graduate student, resident physician, and post-doctoral fellow) who are the first and presenting author of an abstract selected for the ASH Annual Meeting. A list of 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...
Annamaria Gullà, MD, Receives Joanne Levy Memorial Award
Annamaria Gullà, MD, of Dana Farber Cancer Institute, was presented with the 2020 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement. This award is presented to the ASH Scholar Award recipient with the highest-scoring abstract at the ASH annual meeting, as...
ASH Announces 2020 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...
The ASH Ambassador Program Spotlight: Anjlee Mahajan, MD
ASH thanks all of the current Ambassadors and Faculty for their service and dedication to hematology’s next generation: Oyebimpe O. Adesina, MD Natasha M. Archer, MD Staci D. Arnold, MD, MBA, MPH Caroline Cromwell, MD Laura M. De Castro, MD, MSc Maria Teresa De...
2020 Minority Hematology Fellow Award
Currently in its inaugural cohort, the MHFA succeeds MRHAP in the pathway and precedes the ASH-AMFDP. It encourages early-career researchers (MD/ DO, PhD, and MD/DO-PhD) from historically under-represented minority groups in the United States and Canada to pursue a...
2020 Minority Resident Hematology Award Program
The goal of MRHAP is to provide support for under-represented minority residents to conduct hematology-focused research with the intended outcome of increasing interest in hematology research and choice of fellowship. Now in its third cohort, this award program, much...
ASH Recognizes Assistant Secretary of Health ADM Brett Giroir, MD, with 2020 ASH Outstanding Service Award
ASH has recognized ADM Brett Giroir, MD, the 16th Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with the 2020 ASH Outstanding Service Award. To recognize effective “behind-the-scenes” leadership in areas relevant to the...
ASH Recognizes Representative Bill Foster With 2020 Public Service Award
ASH has recognized Representative Bill Foster (D-IL), a scientist and businessman representing the 11th Congressional District of Illinois, with the 2020 ASH Public Service Award. The ASH Public Service Award, established in 1998, is presented each year by the...
Mentorship As the Ultimate Investment in the Future
Drs. Judith Gasson and Wendy Stock Are Recognized With the 2020 ASH Mentor AwardJudith Gasson, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Wendy Stock, MD, of the University of Chicago are being awarded the 2020 ASH Mentor Award for their work as...
Two Careers Built on a Great Passion to Improve Outcomes for Patients
Drs. Michelle Le Beau and Maria Domenica Cappellini Receive 2020 Henry M. Stratton MedalMichelle Le Beau, PhD, of the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Maria Domenica Cappellini, MD, of the University of...
Two Hematologists Working to Make Precision Medicine a Reality
Drs. Ari Melnick and Courtney DiNardo Awarded 2020 Ernest Beutler Lecture and PrizeThe Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize is being awarded this year to Ari Melnick, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, and Courtney DiNardo, MD, of the University of Texas MD...
Toshio Suda, MD, PhD, to Present the 2020 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture
During this year’s annual meeting, Toshio Suda, MD, PhD, of the National University of Singapore and Kumamoto University in Japan will be awarded the 2020 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions therapying the field of stem...
From "What If" to "What’s Next"
Adolfo Ferrando, MD, PhD, Wins 2020 William Dameshek Prize Adolfo Ferrando, MD, PhD, of the Columbia University Institute for Cancer Genetics in New York has been awarded the 2020 William Dameshek Prize. This award is named after the late William Dameshek, MD, a past...
2020 Minority Hematology Graduate Award
Launched in 2019, the MHGA succeeds the MGSAAA in the MRI pathway and encourages graduate students pursing a PhD from historically under-represented minority groups in the United States and Canada to pursue a career in academic hematology. The award provides funding...
2020 Minority Medical Student Award Program
Since 2004, the 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 ASH member mentors. In 2016 the career-development award program, part of the...
ASH Congratulates the Winners of 2020 Minority Recruitment Initiative Awards
From 2017 to 2019, ASH announced three new award programs for underrepresented minority residents, graduate students, and fellows — the ASH Minority Resident Hematology Award Program (MRHAP), ASH Minority Hematology Graduate Award (MHGA), and ASH Minority Hematology...
Engineering Better Care for All
Dr. Mohandas Narla Receives the 2020 Wallace H. Coulter AwardMohandas Narla, DSc, has been awarded the 2020 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology. He is vice president for research at the New York Blood Center and a member of the adjunct...
Uplifting Diversity, Strengthening Progress
Dr. Edward J. Benz Receives 2020 ASH Award for Leadership in Promoting DiversityA world-renown advocate of diversity and inclusion in hematology will be honored during the 2020 ASH Annual Meeting, as Edward J. Benz, Jr., MD, is awarded the 2020 ASH Award for...