2009-11-01

ASH member George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, associate professor of biological chemistry and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, was recently recognized as a member of the first “class” of scientists to receive the prestigious Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health. The program started in 2004 as a mechanism to fund individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering and possibly transforming approaches to address major biomedical or behavioral challenges. Members of subsequent Pioneer classes include ASH members Thomas Maniatis, PhD, professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University, (2008); Joseph (Mike) McCune, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Experimental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, (2008); and Tannishtha Reya, PhD, of Duke University Medical Center, (2009). Dr. Maniatis is also the inaugural winner of ASH’s Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize, along with Yuet Wai Kan, MD, from the University of California, San Francisco.

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