Awards

Global Initiatives

Programs and awards designed specifically for hematologists working and residing outside of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

As the world's largest professional society of hematologists, ASH provides many awards and programs to support hematologists in all stages of their careers and to honor those who have helped advance the field of hematology.

The United States and countries around the world face a major public health concern with the current outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). While ASH is continuing to support hematologists through a variety of programs, awards, and grants, we understand that the entire medical community is currently focused on addressing this public health crisis. If these circumstances are preventing you from participating in or applying for one of our programs, we encourage you to contact awards@hematology.org, prior to stated deadlines.

ASH Minority Recruitment Initiative

The ASH Minority Recruitment Initiative (MRI) was created in 2003 to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities training in hematology-related fields and to increase the number of minority hematologists with academic and research appointments.

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ASH Awards for All Career Stages

Download the ASH Awards Pathway PDF to get an overview of the programs available to support scientists with an interest in hematology at all stages of their careers.

ASH HONORS Award

This award contributes to the development of the next generation of hematologists by providing research funding for talented first-, second-, and third-year medical students.

Minority Hematology Graduate Award

This award provides support and offers exposure to academic hematology for doctoral students in their first, second, or third year of graduate school.

ASH Medical Student Physician-Scientist Award

During this immersive, yearlong project for first-, second-, and third-year medical students, participants conduct laboratory, translational, or clinical hematology research.

ASH Minority Medical Student Award Program

This award is designed to introduce students to hematology through a summer project (2-3 months), flexible project, or full-time, yearlong project.

Minority Resident Hematology Award Program

This award, part of the ASH Minority Recruitment Initiative, matches trainees with career-development mentors.

ASH Abstract Achievement Awards and Outstanding Abstract Achievement Awards

ASH offers these merit-based awards to support select trainees with high-achieving annual meeting abstracts.

ASH-IPIG Abstract Achievement Award for Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH)

This ward is granted to the most meritorious PNH focused abstracts in the fields of Red Cells and Erythropoiesis or Bone Marrow Failure.

ASH Giuseppe Bigi Memorial Award

This award recognizes an Italian trainee who has the highest-scoring abstract in the field of hematopoiesis and stem cells.

Mary Rodes Gibson Memorial Award in Hemostasis and Thrombosis

This Abstract Achievement Award is given to a trainee with the highest-scoring abstract in the field of hemostasis and thrombosis

Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award

This minority recruitment initiative program provides funding for graduate students conducting research on hematology-focused projects.

Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

ASH is honored to offer the Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement to the current ASH Scholar with the highest scoring abstract.

National Partner Society Abstract Achievement Awards

These Abstract Achievement Awards are offered by ASH in partnership with other medical societies

ASH-AMFDP Award

This four-year postdoctoral research grant aims to help scholars from historically disadvantaged backgrounds receive academic and research appointments the field of hematology.

Bridge Grant

This award provides funding for investigators who submitted a hematology-related NIH R01 grant in the past 18 months and whose proposals were scored but denied funding.

Global Research Award

This award works to support future international scientific leaders, increase capacity, and nurture global collaboration among hematologists who are between the completion of training and the establishment of their independent careers.

Minority Hematology Fellow Award

This award encourages early-career MD/DO, PhD, and MD/DO-PhD researchers from historically unrepresented minority groups to pursue a career in academic hematology.

ASH Research Training Award for Fellows

Open to both MD and MD-PhD researchers between their second and fifth year of fellowship, this award is designed to encourage junior researchers to pursue a career in academic hematology.

Scholar Award

This award provides fellows and junior faculty with partial salary or other research support during that critical period required for completion of training and achievement of status as an independent investigator.

CRTI

This yearlong education and mentoring program for hematology fellows and junior faculty at academic medical centers offers education on clinical research methods, research collaborations, statistical analysis, and managing the demands of family and career.

CRTI in Latin America

This award program is intended for early- to mid-career hematology faculty working in Latin American countries who are engaged in clinical research and training and who wish to become more familiar with clinical trial design and execution.

ASH-EHA Translational Research Training in Hematology

This training and mentoring program, which kicks off with a week-long course in Europe, helps junior researchers build successful careers in hematologic translational research.

Latin American Training Program

This program helps build hematology capacity in Latin America by providing funding for hematologists or hematology-related health care professionals to receive 12 weeks of training on a specific priority area for the region.

Visitor Training Program

This program provides funding for hematologists and related health care professionals in low- and middle-income countries to receive training with an ASH mentor.

ASH Award for Leadership in Promoting Diversity

This award recognizes those hematologists who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize Recipients

Named for the late Dr. Ernest Beutler, a past president of ASH and physician-scientist for more than 50 years, this two-part lectureship is intended to recognize major translational advances related to a single topic. Each year, ASH presents this awa...

Honorific Award Nominations

ASH's most prestigious awards recognize the hematologists who have made significant contributions to the field.

ASH Mentor Award

The ASH Mentor Award was created to reward outstanding mentors in the hematology community

Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology

Wallace H. Coulter 1913-1998 First awarded in 2007, the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology, the Society's highest honor, recognizes an individual who has demonstrated a lasting commitment to the field of hematology thro...

William Dameshek Prize Recipients

This award is named for the late Dr. William Dameshek, a past president of the Society. Dr. Dameshek made major contributions to the Society and was the first editor of its journal, Blood. Each year, the Dameshek Prize is awarded to an individua...

Upcoming Deadlines

July 15, 2021
Honorific Awards
Nomination Deadline

August 31, 2021
Global Research Award
Letter of Intent Deadline

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