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 BejarJames 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-WahabVeronika 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. AdamsCarl 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 BertrandAnil 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 BuonamiciXuefang 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. BozulicJalila 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. AguiarTitus 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. DiMartinoMarie-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. AsimakopoulosTitus 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 BonigTao Cheng
Robert Flaumenhaft
Jennifer Gansert
Neil Josephson
Andrea Ng
Matthias Riewald
Suzanne Trudel
Andrew Wagner
Loren Walensky
Akihiko Yokoyama
2002 Recipients
Gregor B. AdamsNathalie 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 BenderJefferson 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 ArmstrongM.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. AirdMark 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 BesslerC. 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 ChenRoberta A. Gottlieb
Shuo Lin
Clifford A. Lowell
Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski
David W. Steinberg
1996 Recipients
Rhonda W. BerroteranChristine 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 FieringCatherine P.M. Hayward
Charles S. Hemenway
Stephen P. Hunger
Louie Naumovski
Daniel S. Wechsler
1994 Recipients
Atul BediPeter H. Domer
Suzanne L. Kirby
Shahin Rafii
David W. Russell
1993 Recipients
Mark W. BrunvardDavid E. Fisher
Kevin W. Harris
John P. Sheehan
1992 Recipients
Helen EnrightDavid C. Sane
Mark C. Walters
Michael P. Mullane
1991 Recipients
Anthony L. BackCraig E. Litz
Raymond P. Smith
Valerie Castle
D. Gary Gilliland
1990 Recipients
Linda BurnsGwen Nichols