ASH Scholar Award Recipients

The following individuals have received the ASH Scholar Award.

2024

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Joshua Brandstadter, MD, PhD
Nicoletta Cieri, MD, PhD
David Glass, PhD
Xu Han, PhD
Mariia Kumskova, MD
Kentson Lam MD, PhD
Pengfei Liang, PhD
Xinjian Mao, PhD
Jeremy Meier, MD, PhD
Caner Saygin, MD
Michael Tassia, PhD

Basic/Translational Fellow to Faculty Scholars
Andres Chang, MD, PhD
Saravanan Ganesan, PhD
Sascha Haubner, MD (ASH-Peter Steelman Scholar Award recipient)
Yafeng Li, PhD
Erin Parry, MD, PhD

Basic/Translational Research Junior Faculty Scholars
Robert Bowman, PhD
Francesca Ferraro, MD, PhD
Harinad Maganti, PhD
Linde Miles, PhD
Patrizia Mondello, MD, PhD
Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD
Kim Vanuytsel, PhD
Aaron Viny, MD, MS
Albert Yeh, MD

Clinical Research Fellow
Michelle Lee, MD

Clinical Research Fellow to Faculty Scholars
Christopher Su, MD, MPH

Clinical Research Junior Faculty Scholars
Ghaith Abu Zeinah, MD
Susanna Curtis MD, PhD
Natalie Grover, MD
Swetha Kambhampati, MD
Madhavi Lakkaraja, MD, MPH
Ang Li, MD, MS
Reid Merryman, MD
Melody Smith, MD, MS
Shaina Willen, MD

2023

Basic/Translational Fellows
Jacob Appelbaum, MD, PhD
Senthil Velan Bhoopalan, MBBS, PhD
Giulia Biancon, PhD
Emily Heikamp, MD, PhD (ASH-Peter Steelman Scholar Award recipient)
Michael Kramer, MD, PhD
Richa Sharma, MD

Basic/Translational Fellow to Faculty
Xufeng Chen, PhD
Orsola Di Martino, PhD
Jana Ellegast, MD
Xin Gao, PhD
Casey Katerndahl, PhD
Stephen Persaud, MD, PhD
Abhishek Singh, PhD
Nicole Vincelette, PhD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Timothy Chlon, PhD
Kyle Cromer, PhD
Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, PhD
Cihangir Duy, PhD
Oleg Kim, PhD
M. Eric Kohler, MD, PhD
Rebecca Luchtel, PhD
Sydney Lu, MD, PhD
Maria Maryanovich, PhD
Zhangli Peng, PhD
Koushik Roy, PhD
Zohar Sachs, MD, PhD
Alan Shih, MD, PhD

Clinical Fellow
Nathan Denlinger, DO, MS
Regina Myers, MD

Clinical Junior Faculty
Matthew Frank, MD, PhD
*Also received the 2023 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement
Casey McAtee, MD, MPH
Afaf Osman, MD
Charity Oyedeji, MD
Daniel Richardson, MD
Urvi A. Shah, MD

2022

Basic/Translational Fellows
Charles Antony, PhD
Danielle Atibalentja, MD, PhD
Asiri Ediriwickrema, MD
Yuhong Ma, PhD
Lucile Noyer, PhD
Suman Paul, MBBS, PhD
Livius Penter, MD
Scott Peslak, MD, PhD
Rebecca Richards, MD, PhD
Jennifer SanMiguel, PhD
Franziska Wachter, MD

Basic/Translational Fellow to Faculty
Pablo Domizi, PhD
Steven Grover, PhD
Eugenio Morelli, MD
Danitza Nebor, PhD
Simone Riedel, PhD (ASH-Peter Steelman Scholar Award recipient)
Elvin Wagenblast, PhD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Daria Babushok, MD, PhD
Giada Bianchi, MD
Bruno Di Stefano, PhD
Radhika Gangaraju, MD
Kate Markey, MBBS, PhD
Seema Patel, PhD
Tirthadipa Pradhan-Sundd, PhD
Martin Rivas, PhD
Jennifer Saultz, DO
Andrew Volk, PhD
Liling Wan, PhD

Clinical Fellow
Caitlin Elgarten, MD
Madhavi Lakkaraja, MD, MPH

Clinical Fellow to Faculty
Beth Apsel Winger, MD, PhD

Clinical Junior Faculty
Nitya Bakshi, MBBS, MS
Kristen Sanfilippo, MD, MPHS
Jordan Schaefer, MD

2021

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Casey Katerndahl, PhD
Christine Zhang, PhD
Diu Nguyen, DPhil
Eugene Khandros, MD, PhD
Han Dong, PhD
Kristen Schratz, MD
Marlise L. Guerrero Schimpf, PhD
Moua Yang, PhD
Scott Millman, MD, PhD
Yimeng Gao, PhD

Basic/Translational Fellow to Faculty
Aaron Viny, MD
*Also received the 2022 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement
Brooke Sadler, PhD
Coraline Mlynarczyk, PhD
Courtney Jones, PhD
Elisa Ten Hacken, PhD
Franco Izzo, PhD
Roger Belizaire, MD, PhD
Samuel Ng, MD, PhD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Ansuman Satpathy, MD, PhD
Dang Nguyen, PhD
Jeevisha Bajaj, PhD
Koichi Takahashi, MD, PhD
Lisa Roth, MD
Rui Lu, PhD
Satheesh Chonat, MD
Shannon Buckley, PhD
Stanley Lee, PhD

Clinical Fellows
Ghadeer Dawwas, PhD
Julia Xu, MD
Roni Shouval, MD, PhD

Clinical Junior Faculty
Aimee Talleur, MD
Ami Patel, MD
Eboni Lance, MD, PhD
Oreofe Odejide, MD
Richard Lin, MD, PhD
Shruti Chaturvedi, MBBS

2020

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Benjamin Barwick, PhD
Theodore Braun, MD, PhD
Federico Gaiti, PhD
Oluwabukola Gbotosho, PhD
Robert Lee, PhD
Hojun Li, MD, PhD
Stephanie Luff, PhD
Satish Nandakumar, PhD
Abhishek Singh, PhD
Alexandra Soukup, PhD
Julia Warren, MD, PhD
Seongseok Yun, MD, PhD
Patricia Zerra, MD

Basic/Translational Fellow to Faculty
Annamaria Gulla, MD*
Rossella Marullo, MD, PhD
Idit Sagiv-Barfi, PhD
Amanda Smith, PhD
Erica Sparkenbaugh, PhD
Anastasia Tikhonova, PhD
Ly Vu, PhD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Michalis Agathocleous, PhD
Wendy Beguelin, PhD
Stephen Chung, MD
Shannon Elf, PhD
Hongxia Fu, PhD
Siddhartha Jaiswal, MD, PhD
Kellie Machlus, PhD
Anjali Mishra, PhD
Andrew Yee, PhD

Clinical Fellows
Hanny Al-Samkari, MD
Francesco Maura, MD
*Also received the 2021 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement
Karolyn Oetjen, MD, PhD
Akshay Sharma, MBBS

Clinical Fellow to Faculty
Lena Winestone, MD

Clinical Junior Faculty
David Bartlett, PhD
Patrick McGann, MD
Rakhi Naik, MD
Jacquelyn Powers, MD
Deborah Siegal, MD
*Also received the 2020 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2019

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Tessa Barrett, PhD
Sheng Cai, MD, PhD
M. Ryan Corces, PhD
Nirav Dhanesha, PhD
Benjamin Durham, MD
Craig Forester, MD, PhD
Christian Hurtz, PhD
Victoria Mascetti, PhD
Sol Schulman, MD, PhD
Elisa ten Hacken, PhD
Ze Zheng, PhD

Clinical Research Fellows
Pavan Bachireddy, MD
Kelly Bolton, MD, PhD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Joseph Aslan, PhD
Sergei Doulatov, PhD
Ann-Kathrin Eisfeld, MD
Jonathan Hoggatt, PhD
Meixiao Long, MD, PhD
Silvia Marino, PhD
Julia Maxson, PhD
Ryan Morin, PhD
Esther Obeng, MD, PhD
Russell Ryan, MD
Sarah Sartain, MD
Ji Zhang, PhD

Clinical Junior Faculty
Inhye Ahn, MD
Nicholas Short, MD*
Moritz Stolla, MD
Anthony Sung, MD
*Also received the 2019 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2018

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Laura Barreyro, PhD
Tomasz Brzoska, PhD
David Gibb, MD, PhD
Zhaohui Gu, PhD
Zachary Hunter, PhD
Moonjung Jung, MD
Stanley Lee, PhD
Nikoleta Psatha, PhD
Lindsay Rein, MD
Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli, PhD
Srividya Swaminathan, PhD
Kira Young, PhD
Xiaotian Zhang, PhD

Clinical Research Fellows
Mark Geyer, MD
Aaron Goldberg, MD, PhD
Lydia Pecker, MD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Lapo Alinari, MD, PhD
Jeffrey Bednarski, MD, PhD
Chun-Wei Chen, PhD
Brandon Hadland, MD, PhD
Alisa Lee Sherick, MD
Megan McNerney, MD, PhD
Faiyaz Notta, PhD
Robert Signer, PhD
David Sykes, MD, PhD
Nan Zhu, PhD

Clinical Junior Faculty
Hema Dave, MD
Jeremie Estepp, MD
Jae Park, MD
Sara Sadreameli, MD

2017 Recipients

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Grazia Abou Ezzi, PhD
Jeevisha Bajaj, PhD
Tae Kon Kim, MD, PhD
Kellie Machlus, PhD
Anna Protopopova, PhD
Marco Ruella, MD²
Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD
Andrew Volk, PhD

Clinical Research Fellows
Melanie Fields, MD, MSCI
Erin Peckham-Gregory, PhD, MPH
Eric Smith, MD, PhD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Margarida Almeida Santos, PhD, MS
Craig Byersdorfer, MD, PhD
Shuaiying Cui, PhD
Jarrod Dudakov, PhD
Renata Grozovsky, PhD
Sanggu Kim, PhD
Dan Landau, MD, PhD*
Emily Mace, PhD
Jeffrey Magee, MD, PhD
Christopher Ott, PhD
Elli Papaemmanuil, PhD
Vikram Paralkar, MD

Clinical Junior Faculty
Premal Lulla, MD
Alice Mims, MD, MSCR
Hong Zheng, MD, PhD
¹Also received the 2017 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement
²Also received the 2018 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2016 Recipients

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Connie Arthur, PhD
Hamza Celik, PhD
Timothy Chlon, PhD
Jesús Delgado-Calle, PhD
Maria Kleppe, PhD
Maksim Mamonkin, PhD
Julia Maxson, PhD
Ryohichi Sugimura, MD, PhD
Alberto Yanez-Boyer, PhD
Steven Yea, MD, PhD

Clinical Research Fellow
Connie Batlevi, MD, PhD
Andrew Branagan, MD
Brian Parkin, MD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Shannon Carty, MD
Rikhia Chakraborty, PhD
Satiro De Oliveira, MD
Joji Fujisaki, MD, PhD
Malay Haldar, MD, PhD
Sang Min, MD, PhD
Stephen Oh, MD, PhD
Qin Qin, PhD
Christopher Sturgeon, PhD*
Owen Tamplin, PhD
Valeria Visconte, PhD
Pamela Wenzel, PhD

Clinical Junior Faculty
M. Paula Aristizabal, MD
Jonathon Cohen, MD
Amy Sobota, MD, MPH

*Also received the 2016 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2015 Recipients

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Wendy Béguelin, PhD
Stephen S. Chung, MD*
Jacky Chung, PhD
Jacob J. Junco, PhD
Rami Khoriaty, MD
Dan A. Landau, MD, PhD
Jing Li, PhD
Dechen Lin, PhD
Danitza M. Nébor, PhD
Pengxu Qian, PhD
Pavankumar NG Reddy, PhD
Kathryn G. Roberts, PhD
David H. Spencer, MD, PhD
Jianlong Sun, PhD

Clinical Research Fellow
Liran Shlush, MD, PhD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Ash Alizadeh, MD, PhD
Daniel Bauer, MD, PhD
Aniruddha Deshpande, PhD
Kira Gritsman, MD, PhD
Hao Jiang, PhD
Birgit Knoechel, MD, PhD
Jens Lohr, MD, PhD
Jordan Shavit, MD, PhD
Jian Xu, PhD

Clinical Junior Faculty
Meagan Jacoby, MD, PhD
Jeffrey Lebensburger, DO
Adam Olszewski, MD
Rizwan Romee, MD
Vivien Sheehan, MD, PhD
Jennifer Whangbo, MD, PhD

*2015 Jake Wetchler Foundation ASH Scholar for Pediatric Innovation

2014 Recipients

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD
Steven Chan, MD, PhD
Anna Eiring, PhD
Andrew Lane, MD, PhD
Sang Min, MD
Panagiotis Ntziachristos, PhD
Léon Kautz, PhD¹
Timothy Olson, MD, PhD
Pedro Pereira da Rocha, PhD

Clinical Research Fellows
Sarah Nikiforow, MD, PhD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Suneet Agarwal, MD, PhD
Jason Butler, PhD
Grant Challen, PhD
Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD
Alex Kentsis, MD, PhD
Gerald Morris, MD, PhD
Matthias Stadtfeld, PhD
Stephen Sykes, PhD
Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD²
Gang "Greg" Wang, PhD
Baochun Zhang, MD, PhD

Clinical Junior Faculty
Amanda Brandow, DO, MS
Eric Padron, MD

¹Also received the 2014 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement
²Also received the 2015 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2013 Recipients

Basic/Translational Research Fellows
Caroline Arber, MD
Brian Branchford, MD
Jarrod Dudakov, PhD
Giusy Della Gatta, PhD
Charles Gawad, MD
Léon Kautz, PhD*
Vikram Paralkar, MD
Raajit Rampal, MD, PhD
Owen Tamplin, PhD

Clinical Research Fellows
Saar Gill, PhD
Loretta Nastoupil, MD

Basic/Translational Junior Faculty
Weikai Li, PhD
Troy Lund, MD, PhD
Anupama Narla, MD
Eirini Papapetrou, MD, PhD
Jean-Francois Raul, PhD
Dhvanit Shah, PhD
Laurie Steiner, MD
Jieqing Zhu, PhD

Clinical Junior Faculty
Alan Hanash, MD, PhD
Catherine Smith, MD
Anita Rajasekhar, MD

*Also received the 2013 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2012 Recipients

Sophia Adamia Rafael Bejar
James Bradner
Karen Bunting*
Leandro Cerchietti
Stella Chou
Sarah Holstein
Peng Ji
Yanwen Jiang
Andrew Kim
Mondira Kundu
Shannon McKinney-Freeman
Amelie Montel-Hagen
Vu Ngo
Shunbin Ning
Fabiana Perna
John Anto Pulikkan
Borja Saez
Jing Wang
Pamela Wenzel
Jing Yang
Jun Yang
Anne Zaiss

*Also received the 2012 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2011 Recipients

Omar I. Abdel-Wahab
Veronika Bachanova
Anil Chauhan*
Brian T. Edelson
Hiyaa S. Ghosh
Samantha M. Jaglowski
Jill Johnsen
Michael G. Kharas
Holbrook Kohrt
Andrew G. Muntean
George J. Murphy
Mary Philip
Jonathan N. Thon
Jennifer J. Trowbridge
William Savage
Daniel T. Starczynowski
Pieter Van Vlierberghe
Catherine T. Yan

*Also received the 2011 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2010 Recipients

Gregor B. Adams
Carl Allen
Philippe Armand
Jennifer R. Brown¹
Jennifer Seiberlich Brown
Grant A. Challen²
Baiwei Gu
Susannah L. Hewitt
Taro Hitosugi
Taku Kambayashi
Ann Mullally
Marvin T. Nieman
Trista North
Enrico M. Novelli
Ran Reshef
David M. Weinstock
Jing Zhang

¹Gabrielle's Angel Foundation Scholar Award winner
²Also received the 2010 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2009 Recipients

Julien Bertrand
Anil Chauhan
Sioban Keel
Simón Méndez-Ferrer*
Tammy Morrish
Vivian Oehler
Christopher Park
Ryan Phan
Rodger Tiedemann
Wolfgang Bergmeier
Todd Fehniger
Ivan Maillard
Alexander Minella
Naoto Hirano
Allison King

*Also received the 2009 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2008 Recipients

Silva Buonamici
Xuefang Cao
Kira Gritsman
Jeanne Henderickson
Han Liu
Shannon McKinney-Freeman
Akil Merchant
Charles Mullighan¹
Eric S. Mullins
Matthew Strout
Elizabeth Hexner
Joshua Schiffman
Geoffrey L. Uy
Jing Yang
Natalia Beglova
L.R. Devireddy
Takahiro Maeda
David Motto
Cindy N. Roy
Loren Walensky
Zack Wang
David C. Williams Jr.
Jianchang Yang
Chengcheng Zhang
Heidi Klepin²

¹Also received the 2008 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement
²ASP-ASH Geriatric Hematology Research Award Scholar

2007 Recipients

Larry D. Bozulic
Jalila Chagraoui
Francesca Ficara
Maria E. Figueroa
Paul J. Galardy
Hanno Hock
Hanna Mikkola
David Miklos
Sattva Neelapu
Emmanuelle A. Passegue
Tobias Ragoczy
Dan Vogl
John B. Walker
Junping Wei
Ethan J. Weiss
Robert Zeiser

2006 Recipients

Ricardo C.T. Aguiar
Titus Boggon
James Bradner
Benjamin Braun
Jonathan Grim
James J. Hsieh
Koho Iizuka
Mondira Kundu
Ross Levine
Ruhikanta A. Meetei
Sarah O'Brien
Dinesh S. Rao
Michael P. Rettig
Kimberly Stegmaier*
John J. Strouse
David Traver

*Also received the 2006 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement

2005 Recipients

Jorge F. DiMartino
Marie-Dominique Filippi
M. Golam Mohi
Laurent Mosnier
David Motto
Matthew Walter
Neil Goldenberg
Kimberly Stegmaier
Roland Walter
Alan Cantor
Min Chen
Richard Dahl
Boris Reizis
Irene Ghobrial
Xianzheng Zhou

2004 Recipients

Fotis A. Asimakopoulos
Titus Boggon
Anthony Brickner
Aileen Cleary
Michael Deininger
Hisashi Harada
Ephraim Hochberg
Dan Kaufman
Robert Lowsky
Vivian Oehler
Tomoyuki Sawado
Motomu Shimaoka
Zhixiong Xu

2003 Recipients

Halvard Bonig
Tao Cheng
Robert Flaumenhaft
Jennifer Gansert
Neil Josephson
Andrea Ng
Matthias Riewald
Suzanne Trudel
Andrew Wagner
Loren Walensky
Akihiko Yokoyama

2002 Recipients

Gregor B. Adams
Nathalie Beslu
John Crispino
Xu-Ming Dai
Steven J. Freedman
Haihua Gu
Vincent Ho
Shigemi Matsuyama
Ari Melnick
Kim Nichols
Susan O'Shea
David Sweetser
Toshiyasu Taniguchi
Yatin Vyas

2001 Recipients

Michael Bender
Jefferson Chan
Ellen Chuang
Debra Dahlen
Jonathan Drachman
Paula Fraenkel
Suzanne Jacques-O'Hagan
Joseph Italiano Jr.
Anthony Letai
Vivienne llona Rebel
Aaron Schimmer
Susan S. Smyth
Hong Wang
Mitchell J. Weiss

2000 Recipients

Scott Armstrong
M.A. Bender
Stephen Everse
Timothy Graubert
Reuben Kapur
Gary Kupfer
Joanne Levy
Alice Ma
Theodora S. Ross
K. Gary Vanasse
Lizi Wu

1999 Recipients

William C. Aird
Mark D. Fleming
Paul S. Frenette
Todd R. Golub
Margaret A. Goodell
Carolyn C. Hoppe
Suming Huang
Jana Krosl
Steven W. Pipe
Susanne Ragg
Vivienne Rebel
Evgueni L. Saenko
Michael R. Verneris

1998 Recipients

Monica Bessler
C. Anthony Blau
Gerd Blobel
Robert A. Brodsky
Michael E. Bromberg
Pamela Correll
Christoph Klein
Shiuh-Wen Luoh
Matthew B. Rettig
J. Eric Russell
Ronit Simantov
Evangelia Skarpidi
Stephen Szilvassy
Michael Thirman
Chunyan Zhang

1997 Recipients

J. Don Chen
Roberta A. Gottlieb
Shuo Lin
Clifford A. Lowell
Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski
David W. Steinberg

1996 Recipients

Rhonda W. Berroteran
Christine E. Canman
John M. Cunningham
Jonathan G. Drachman
Nancy S. Green
Athan Kuliopulos
Lilli M. Petruzelli
Gregory R. Ryan
Shao-Cong Sun
Young Whang
Elizabeth Yang

1995 Recipients

Steve Fiering
Catherine P.M. Hayward
Charles S. Hemenway
Stephen P. Hunger
Louie Naumovski
Daniel S. Wechsler

1994 Recipients

Atul Bedi
Peter H. Domer
Suzanne L. Kirby
Shahin Rafii
David W. Russell

1993 Recipients

Mark W. Brunvard
David E. Fisher
Kevin W. Harris
John P. Sheehan

1992 Recipients

Helen Enright
David C. Sane
Mark C. Walters
Michael P. Mullane

1991 Recipients

Anthony L. Back
Craig E. Litz
Raymond P. Smith
Valerie Castle
D. Gary Gilliland

1990 Recipients

Linda Burns
Gwen Nichols

1989 Recipients

Thomas H. Carter

1985 Recipients

Carol Westbrook