E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize Recipients
The following individuals received the E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize. This lectureship was created in 1992 and named after the late Nobel Prize laureate and past society president E. Donnall Thomas. The E. Donnall Thomas Lecture and Prize is intended to recognize pioneering research achievements in hematology that have represented a paradigm shift or significant discovery in the field.
| Year | Recipient | Information | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD | Press Release | Gene Expression Signatures, Cellular Origins, and Epigenetic Drivers of MLL(KMT2A)-Rearranged Leukemia |
| 2025 | Nancy Speck, PhD | Press Release ASH News Daily profile | Core Binding Factor in Blood Cell Formation and Leukemia |
| 2024 | Sean J. Morrison, PhD | Press Release ASH News Daily profile | Hematopoietic Stem Cell Maintenance |
| 2023 | Katy Rezvani | Press release ASH News Daily profile | Natural Killer Cells: A New Frontier for Cancer Immunotherapy |
| 2022 | Bruce Blazar | Press release ASH Clinical News article | The Long and Winding Road to Clinically Effective Graft-versus-Host Disease (GVHD) Therapeutics |
| 2021 | Connie Westhoff | Press release ASH News Daily profile | Rh and Transfusion in the Era of Genomics |
| 2020 | Toshio Suda | ASH News Daily profile | Quiescence and Cell Metabolism in Hematopoietic Stem Cells |
| 2019 | Philip Greenberg | Press release | The long road to develop adoptive therapy with T cells that can effectively target AML and other malignancies |
| 2018 | Connie J. Eaves | Press release | Blood Stem Cells: A Simple Concept, But a Complex Reality |
| 2017 | James R. Downing | Press release | The Molecular Pathology of Pediatric Acute Leukemia |
| 2016 | David Scadden | Bone Marrow: Structure and Function of the Blood Cell Foundry | |
| 2015 | Barbara Furie and Bruce Furie | Thiol Isomerases as Potential Regulators Controlling the Initiation of Thrombus Formation | |
| 2014 | Tomas Ganz | Iron, Erythropoiesis, and Host Defense: A Ménage à Trois | |
| 2013 | Katherine A. High | Sailing to Ithaka: Gene Therapy’s Odyssey from Investigational Agent to Therapeutic Product | |
| 2012 | Timothy J. Ley | The AML Genome |