Outstanding Abstract Achievement Awards
The following individuals received ASH Outstanding Abstract Achievement Awards.
2025 RECIPIENTS
Undergraduate Student
Bharath Dileep Kumar
National Heart Lung Blood Institute, NIH
Loss-of-function alterations in TRAF3 drive BTK/PLCG2-independent ibrutinib resistance in CLL
Medical Student
Anna Clara Bader
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
LIME: A first-in-class of live bacterial immune engagers for cancer immunotherapy
Graduate Student
Pengcheng Zhang
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine
Paralog interdependency between MEF2C and MEF2D sustains protein stability and leukemia maintenance in KMT2A-rearranged AML
Resident Physician
Niklas Kehl
Heidelberg Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine
T cell fitness and tumor specificity predict immunotherapy response in multiple myeloma
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Wenhui Li
Harvard University Brigham and Women's Hospital
T cell fitness and tumor specificity predict immunotherapy response in multiple myeloma
2024 RECIPIENTS
Undergraduate Student
Joshua Wischmeyer
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
A Novel Factor VIII Mutation with Increased Activity, Severe Thrombosis and Resistance to Activated Protein C
Medical Student
Shan Liu
University of Pennsylvania
Ketogenic Diet Enhances CAR T Cell Antitumor Function Via β-Hydroxybutyrate
Graduate Student
Travis Fleming
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Targeted Protein Degradation Reveals a Repressive Role of Mecom at the CEBPA Locus to Prevent Differentiation in High-Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Resident Physician
Amelia Haj, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Coagulation Factor XII (F12) Haploinsufficiency Is Protective Against Venous Thromboembolism
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Jenny Paredos, PhD
City of Hope
Increased Fiber Intake Results in Better Overall Survival and Lower GI-aGVHD in Allo-HCT Recipients and Pre-Clinical Gvhd Models
2023 RECIPIENTS
Undergraduate Student
Rajagopalan Subramaniam
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai, India
Individualized Prediction of Outcomes of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Sickle Cell Disease: A Machine Learning Approach
Medical Student
Anagha Sheth, BSc
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States
Targeting Mitochondrial Calcium Uptake to Eradicate Venetoclax-Resistant Acute Myeloid Leukemia Stem Cells
Graduate Student
Zhaofeng Zheng
Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Tianjin, China
The ATF4-RPS19BP1 Axis Modulates Ribosome Biogenesis to Promote Erythropoiesis
Resident Physician
Moritz Fürstenau, MD
University of Cologne, Koeln, Germany
First-Line Venetoclax Combinations in Fit Patients with CLL: 4-Year Follow-up and NGS-Based MRD Analysis from the Phase 3 GAIA/CLL13 Trial
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Mirca Saurty-Seerunghen, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States
Classic Hodgkin Lymphomas Display Neuronal-Glial Lineage Transdifferentiation
2022 RECIPIENTS
Undergraduate Student
Nina Shaver
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Effect of Epitope Specific Antibodies on Single Platelet Physiology with Implications for Immune Thrombocytopenia Purpura
Medical Student
Varun Sudunagunta
Columbia University
Dysplastic Erythropoiesis in Stag2 Loss Exhibits Defective Nuclear Condensation and Hemophagocytosis
Graduate Student
Alexandra Preston
University of Oxford
An Ancient Transcriptional Hub Couples Developmentally Regulated Gene Expression with Metabolism during Erythropoiesis
Resident Physician
Lauren Meyer MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
A Transcriptional Classifier Identifies Pediatric T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemias at High Risk for End of Induction Minimal Residual Disease
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Richard Voit MD, PhD
Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Harvard Medical School
Regulated Expression of GATA1 As a Gene Therapy Cure for Diamond-Blackfan Anemia
2021 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Zhuo-Yu An
Peking University
Tacrolimus Plus High-Dose Dexamethasone Versus High-Dose Dexamethasone Alone As First-Line Treatment for Adult Immune Thrombocytopenia: The Phase 2, Open Label, Randomized Trial (TARGET 020)
Abstract #13
Medical Student
Tim Kong, MSc
Washington University School of Medicine
DUSP6 Mediates Resistance to JAK2 Inhibition and Drives Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Disease Progression
Abstract #55
Graduate Student
Shun Uemura, MD
The University of Tokyo
YAP/TAZ Promote Hematopoietic Regeneration Via Accelerating the Recovery of Bone Marrow Niche
Abstract #199
Resident Physician
Jacob Ludington, MD, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
SARS-CoV-2 Ion Channel ORF3a Enables TMEM16F-Dependent Phosphatidylserine Externalization to Augment Procoagulant Activity of the Tenase and Prothrombinase Complexes
Abstract #1
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Alba Rodriguez-Meira
University of Oxford
Single-Cell Multi-Omics Reveals the Genetic, Cellular and Molecular Landscape of TP53 Mutated Leukemic Transformation in MPN
Abstract #3
2020 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Georgia Gregory
University of California, San Francisco
Investigating Zeta Globin Gene Expression to Develop a Potential Therapy for Alpha Thalassemia Major
Abstract #2601
Medical Student
Yuting Yan
Peking Union Medical College
Genomic and Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Distinct Subsets Associated with Outcomes in Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Abstract #279
Graduate Student
Christian Marinaccio
Northwestern University
Loss of LKB1/STK11 Facilitates Leukemic Progression of the Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
Abstract #1
Resident Physician
Kylee Martens, MD
University of Washington School of Medicine
High-2-Low Risk Assessment Model to Predict Venous Thromboembolism in Allogeneic Transplant Patients after Platelet Engraftment
Abstract #137
Postdoctoral Fellows
Xianjiang Lan, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
ZNF410 Uniquely Activates the NuRD Component CHD4 to Silence Fetal Hemoglobin Expression
Abstract #156
2019 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Stacy Kiven
University of Minnesota
Calpain-1 Contributes to Pain and Organ Damage in Sickle Cell Disease
Abstract #76
Medical Student
Hrishikesh Srinagesh
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The MAGIC Algorithm Probability (MAP): A Novel Laboratory Biomarker for the Response to Treatment of Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Abstract #367
Graduate Student
Melanie Castro-Mollo, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Erythroferrone Regulates Bone Remodeling in β-Thalassemia
Abstract #2
Resident Physician
Naranie Shanmuganathan, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA
Royal Adelaide Hospital
RNA Splicing Defects in Cancer-Linked Genes Indicate Mutation or Focal Gene Deletion and Are Associated with TKI Resistance in CML
Abstract #662
Postdoctoral Fellow
Tomoya Muto, MD, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Innate Immune Signaling Suppresses Acute Leukemia By Modifying MYC Oncogenic Activity
Abstract #727
2018 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Jesus Garcia Garcia
University of Minnesota
5 Year Health Care Burden after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT): Impact of Graft Source
Abstract #367
Medical Student
Rosalie Sterner
Mayo Clinic
GM-CSF Blockade during Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy Reduces Cytokine Release Syndrome and Neurotoxicity and May Enhance Their Effector Functions
Abstract #961
Graduate Student
Camila Prieto
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
RNA Binding Protein Rbmx Is Required in Acute Myeloid Leukemia By Regulating the Transcriptional Activity of the Heterochromatin Protein HP1α
Abstract #883
Resident Physician
Philipp Rauch, MD
Boston University School of Medicine
Loss-of-Function Mutations in Dnmt3a and Tet2 Lead to Accelerated Atherosclerosis and Convergent Macrophage Phenotypes in Mice
Abstract #745
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jun Chen, MD, PhD
Lund University
Small Molecule Screens Identify CDK8-Inhibitors As Candidate Diamond-Blackfan Anemia Drugs
Abstract #753
2017 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Kacey Guenther
National Institutes of Health
Eltrombopag Promotes DNA Repair in Human Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells: Implications for the Treatment of Fanconi Anemia
Abstract #776
Medical Student
Diego Espinoza
National Institutes of Health
Aberrant Clonal Hematopoiesis of the Erythroid and Myeloid Lineages in a Lentivirally Barcoded Rhesus Macaque
Abstract #606
Graduate Student
Shuhei Asada
The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Mutant ASXL1 Cooperates With BAP1 to Promote Myeloid Leukemogenesis
Abstract #562
Resident Physician
Simon Heidegger, MD
Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich
Tumor-Intrinsic RIG-I Signaling Promotes Anti-CTLA-4 Checkpoint Inhibitor-Mediated Anticancer Immunity
Abstract #693
Postdoctoral Fellow
Franco Izzo, PhD
New York Genome Center
Single-Cell Methylome and Transcriptome High-Resolution Maps Define the Effects of Epigenetic Modifiers on the Landscape of Hematopoietic Differentiation
Abstract #559
2016 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Ryunosuke Saiki
Kyoto University
NGS-Based Copy Number Analysis in 1,185 Patients with Myeloid Neoplasms
Publication #955
Medical Student
Matthew Hartwell
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
An Early Biomarker Algorithm Predicts Lethal Graft-Versus-Host Disease and Survival after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Publication #509
Graduate Student
Xiaotian Zhang
Baylor College of Medicine
High Order Chromatin Structure Regulates Gene Expression in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Erythroid Differentiation
Publication #1033
Resident Physician
Maximilian Witzel, MD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
SWI/SNF Protein SMARCD2 Orchestrates Transcriptional Networks Controlling Hematopoiesis and Neutrophil Granulocytes in Humans, Mice and Zebrafish
Publication #2
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ly Vu, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
RNA Binding Protein Syncrip Regulates the Leukemia Stem Cell Program
Publication #739
2015 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Hannah Rasmussen
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Oncostatin M Enhances Hematopoietic Stem Cell Homing and Engraftment
Publication #31
Medical Student
Bryan Harris
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
Rpl22 Deficiency Predisposes Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells to Leukemogenesis
Publication #899
Graduate Student
Lars Klemm, MSc
University of California – San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Exposure to Inflammatory Immune Responses As Driver of Clonal Evolution in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Publication #166
Resident Physician
Ryan Moy, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Immunologic Effects of CCR5 Blockade in Graft-Versus-Host Disease Prophylaxis
Publication #920
Postdoctoral Fellow
Noboru Asada, MD, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
Distinct Contributions By Perivascular Niche Cells in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Maintenance
Publication #661
2014 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Kathryn Luk
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Mast Cell Activation in Sickle Mice Stimulates Endothelial Dysfunction
Publication #453
Medical Student
Joshua Siner
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Unexpected Role of PACE/Furin Cleavage Site in FVIII Biology: Implications for Hemophilia A Therapy
Publication #105
Graduate Student
Noemi Zambetti
Eramus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Deletion of Sbds from Hematopoietic Progenitors Causes Neutropenia in a Mouse Model of Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome By Specifically Blocking Myeloid Lineage Progression at Late Differentiation Stages
Publication #355
Resident Physicians
Jurjen Versluis
Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Comparative Value of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Chemotherapy in Cytogenetically Normal AML Subclassified By NPM1 Mutation Status and FLT3-ITD Allelic Ratio
Publication #323
Raynier Devillier
Institut Paoli Calmettes, Marseille, France
Higher Doses of Antithymocyte Globulin (ATG) Increase the Risk of Relapse in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Patients Undergoing Matched Related Donor Allogeneic Transplantation in First Complete Remission (CR1): An Analysis from the Acute Leukemia Working Party of EBMT
Publications #729
Postdoctoral Fellow
Léon Kautz, PhD (Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement recipient at 2014 ASH Annual Meeting)
University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Role of Erythroferrone in the Pathophysiology of Common Anemias
Publications #213
2013 Recipients
Undergraduate Students
Meredith Fay
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA
White Blood Cell Mechanics Mediate Glucocorticoid- and Catecholamine-Induced Demargination
Publication #3495
Ruben Land
Columbia University, New York, NY
The Orphan Nuclear Receptor Nr4a1 Specifies Long-Term, Myeloid-Biased HSCs and Responds To PGE2
Publication #3675
Medical Student
Anna Mertelsmann
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
IL-22 Administration Decreases Intestinal GVHD Pathology, Increases Intestinal Stem Cell Recovery, and Enhances Immune Reconstitution Following Allogeneic Hematopoietic Transplantation
Publication #290
Graduate Student
Jonathan Reichel
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Exome Sequencing of Purified Hodgkin Reed-Sternberg Cells Reveals Recurrent Somatic Mutations In Genes Responsible for Antigen Presentation, Chromosome Integrity, Transcriptional Regulation and Protein Ubiquitination
Publication #625
Resident Physician
Kaan Boztug, MD
CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Deficiency of JAGN1 Causes Severe Congenital Neutropenia Associated With Defective Secretory Pathway and Aberrant Myeloid Cell Homeostasis
Publication #439
Postdoctoral Fellow
Léon Kautz, PhD
University of California – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
The Erythroid Factor Erythroferrone and Its Role In Iron Homeostasis
Publication #4
2012 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Pranam Chatterjee
PD-1 Couples Glucose Starvation with Autophagy and Survival Through AMPK-Mediated Phosphorylation of Ulk1
Abstract #836
Medical Student
Thibault Dupont
Combinatorial Targeting of BCL6 and Anti-Apoptotic Proteins in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) and Follicular Lymphoma (FL)
Abstract #64
Graduate Students
Steven Rhodes
Haploinsufficiency of Nf1 in Myeloid Lineages Contributes to Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Associated Skeletal Deficits
Abstract #830
Kenichi Yoshida, MD
Genetic Basis of Myeloid Proliferation Related to Down Syndrome
Abstract #535
Resident Physicians
Jan-Henning Klusmann, MD
the miR-99~125 Polycistrons Promote Leukemogenesis in a Cell-Context Dependent Manner by Shifting the Balance Between TGFβ- and Wnt-Signaling
Abstract #109
Hanna L.M. Rajala, MD
Discovery of STAT5b Mutations and Small Subclones of STAT3 Mutations in Large Granular Lymphocytic (LGL) Leukemia
Abstract #871
Postdoctoral Fellows
Xavier Anguela, PhD
In Vivo Genome Editing of Liver Albumin for Therapeutic Gene Expression: Rescue of Hemophilic Mice Via Integration of Factor 9
Abstract #751
Raffaele Renella, MD, PhD
Hematopoietic SIN Lentiviral Micro RNA-Mediated Silencing of BCL11A: Pre-Clinical Evidence for a Sickle Cell Disease Gene-Therapy Trial
Abstract #753
2010 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Maria Virgilio
Treatment of Zebrafish Models of Ribosomopathies (Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA) and 5q- Syndrome) with L-Leucine Results In An Improvement of Anemia and Developmental Defects: Evidence for a Common Pathway?
Publication #195
Medical Student
Karrune Woan
Identification of a Discrete Subpopulation of T-Cells Over-Expressing HDAC11 with a TH17 Phenotype
Publication #588
Graduate Student
Wulan Deng
Manipulating Higher Order Chromatin Structure of the β-Globin Locus by Targeted Tethering of a “looping” Factor
Publication #647
Resident Physician
Kaan Boztug
Correction of Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome by Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy
Publication #5
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jian Xu, PhD
Reactivation of Silenced Human HbF In Adult Mice by Inactivation of BCL11A
Publication #643
2009 Recipients
Undergraduate Student
Kimberly Fan
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Donor Dendritic Cells Home to Lymphoid Organs in Allogeneic Transplant Recipients, Enhance Donor T-Cell Chimerism, and Polarize Donor T-Cell Activation
Medical Student
Kyle Eash
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
CXCR2 Signals Act in Concert with CXCR4 to Regulate Neutrophil Release From the Bone Marrow
Graduate Students
Hélène Moniz, MD
Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
Distinct Differences in inVitro Erythroid Proliferation and Differentiation, p53 and Apoptosis Pathways in Diamond-Blackfan Anemia in Conjunction with Depletion of RPS19, RPL5 and RPL11 mRNA
An De Weer, MD
Ghent University Hospital, Belgium
Downregulation of MiR-449a Is Essential for the Survival of EVI1 Positive Leukemic Cells through Modulation of NOTCH1 and BCL2
Resident Physician
Suparna Nanua, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
Loss of PERK Signaling Results in Impaired Granulopoiesis in Transgenic Mice Expressing Mutant Ela2
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jian Xu, PhD
Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Control of Hemoglobin Switching by BCL11A
2008 Recipients
Undergraduate Students
Julie Boiko
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
IgG Allotypes Reveal That Antimicrobial Humoral Immunity Persists after Reduced-Intensity Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Katelyn Dow
The Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF, San Francisco, CA
A Novel Tissue Factor Resistance Locus on Mouse Chromosome 11 Confers Protection from Thrombosis through Reduced Activity of Factor XI
Medical Student
Robert Blue
The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Limiting αIIb Extension at the Genu Differentially Affects Binding of Small and Large Ligands to αIIbβ3
Graduate Student
Christopher Miller
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Pax5 Haploinsufficiency Cooperates with BCR-ABL1 to Induce Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Resident Physician
Kaan Boztug, MD
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
A Novel Clinical Syndrome Associating Severe Congenital Neutropenia and Complex Developmental Aberrations Caused by Deficiency of G6PC3
Postdoctoral Fellow
Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Ph.D
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Regulated by the Sympathetic Nervous System, Form the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Niche
2007 Recipients
Undergraduate Students
Aditya Mandawat
Pan-Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitor LBH589 Depletes CXCR4 Levels and Signaling, Exerting Synergistic Anti-Leukemia Activity in Combination with CXCR4 Antagonists
Publication #537
Shailaja Karanti
An Atlas of the MicroRNA Genome in Human DLBCL
Publication # 563
Medical Students
Andrew McDaniel
Loss of Pak1 Corrects Multiple Gain of Function Phenotypes in Nf1+/- Mast Cells
Publication # 236
Joshua H. Wong, BS, MS
Increased Thrombosis in Male Versus Female Mice Is Mediated by Pulsatile Growth Hormone Secretion Possibly through Inhibition of TFPI Expression in the Vasculature
Publication # 266
Graduate Student
Gustavo F. Da Silva, MS
Design and Development of Small Molecules for Specific Targeted Therapy of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
Publication # 799
Resident Physician
Claudia Lengerke, MD
BMP and Wnt Induce Embryonic Blood Fate by Activation of the Cdx-Hox Pathway
Publication # 199
Postdoctoral Fellows
Simon Mendez-Ferrer, PhD
Circadian Traffic of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Is Orchestrated by the Molecular Clock and Mediated by β3 Adrenergic Signals from the Sympathetic Nervous System
Publication # 219
Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS, MD
Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors I
ERG Deletions Define a Novel Subtype of B-Progenitor Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Publication # 691