ASH announces 2010 Scholar Award winners
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) announces the 2010 recipients of its Scholar Awards. The program is designed to support hematologists who have chosen a career in research by providing partial salary or other support during that critical period required for completion of training and achievement of status as an independent investigator.
The awards are made possible through grants from the corporate community, individual donors, foundations, and funds committed by the Society. The awards are for two years at $50,000 per year for fellows and $75,000 per year for junior faculty.
The 2010 Scholar Award recipients are:
Basic Research Fellows
Grant A. Challen, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Baiwei Gu, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
Susannah L. Hewitt, PhD
New York University
Taro Hitosugi, PhD
Emory University
Ann Mullally, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Clinical/Translational Research Fellows
Philippe Armand, MD, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Ran Reshef, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Basic Research Junior Faculty
Gregor B. Adams, PhD
University of Southern California
Taku Kambayashi, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Marvin T. Nieman, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Trista North, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
David M. Weinstock, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jing Zhang, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Clinical/Translational Research Junior Faculty
Carl Allen, MD, PhD
Texas Children's Hospital
Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Enrico M. Novelli, MD
Hemophilia Center of Western Pennsylvania
Gabrielle's Angel Foundation Scholar Award
The Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research is named for Gabrielle Rich Aouad, who passed away in 1996 at the age of 27 after a long struggle against acute myelogenous leukemia. It was Gabrielle's wish that a foundation be created to help spare others the suffering that she endured. Upon her passing, her mother, Denise Rich established the Foundation to support blood cancer research. The Foundation has joined ASH in support of research by funding a 2010 Junior Faculty Scholar Award, and we are pleased to have their support. This year's recipient is Dr. Jennifer R. Brown from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, whose research will focus on using genomic technology to explore the pathogenesis of familial and sporadic chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and, ultimately, to identify genes that
predispose a patient to acquiring CLL.
ASH welcomes the Foundation as a new supporter of the Scholars.
Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement
The Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement is given to the current ASH Scholar with the highest scoring abstract for the ASH annual meeting as determined by the appointed abstract reviewers. ASH is honored to offer this award, made possible by the Levy family to continue the legacy of their daughter Joanne, a past ASH Scholar Award recipient and distinguished Society member who passed away in 2004.
This year's recipient is Simón Méndez-Ferrer, PhD, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Méndez-Ferrer was recently appointed assistant professor at the Tisch Cancer Institute, Department of Medicine, at Mount Sinai. His recent studies have identified, using nestin expression, the cells targeted by the sympathetic nervous system in the bone marrow (BM) regulating hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) traffic as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), suggesting a heterotypic association of HSC-MSCs in the BM niche. The award will provide funding for Dr. Méndez-Ferrer to continue this research.
In both 2007 and 2008, Dr. Méndez-Ferrer was honored with the ASH Merit Award for his research. Dr. Méndez-Ferrer's abstract, "Coordinated Regulation of Hematopoietic and Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Bone Marrow Niche" was presented during the Plenary Session at the 2009 ASH annual meeting.
Provided by American Society of Hematology
