(WASHINGTON, November 15, 2007) – This summer, 36 medical students, undergraduates, and residents each received $4,000 to conduct research on blood and blood-related diseases. These Trainee Research Awards, provided by the American Society of Hematology (ASH), are designed to encourage the pursuit of research and spark an interest in the specialty.
Travel stipends are also provided to these investigators to attend the upcoming ASH annual meeting in December, one of the largest medical meetings in the country, to give them an opportunity to meet other researchers and hear the latest scientific developments in hematology.
Since 1995, Trainee Research Awards have supported nearly 600 trainees who are just beginning their scientific careers. The funding is distributed through hematology training programs at the awardees’ institutions and supports three-month-long projects in laboratory research or clinical investigation.
The 2007 Trainee Research Award recipients are:
Emily Adams, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Nadia Bambace, MD, University of Vermont, South Burlington, VT
Keith R. Barry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Cole Bennett, University of Toledo, Health Science Campus, Toledo, OH
Adam Brank, MD, PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Agnieszka Czechowicz, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Charlie Foucar, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Megan L. Gilman, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Elizabeth Gruber, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY
Eric Han, MD, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY
Hesham Hazin, MD, New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Courtney K. Hopkins, DO, Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Cigall Kadoch, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Jonathon Ledet, Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Shreveport, LA
James Lee, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Brenton Mar, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY
Emil Mellgren, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Olivia Nelson, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Marie Huong Thien Nguyen, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Eric Olson, MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Andrea Meehae Park, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA
Hang M. Pham, University of California, San Diego, CA
Patricia Purcell, Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, TX
Yuval Raizen, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Esther Ro, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Emir Senturk, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Deborah Seigel, MSc, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Davendra Sohol, MD, MPH, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Christopher Thompson, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Charlie Tian, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Vishal Tulsi, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Jeffrey Turner, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
David Wallace, Jr., Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA
He Wang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Matthew Witkos, HBSc, MSc, North Chicago Veteran’s Affairs Hospital, Chicago, IL
Tom Zhou, University of Minnesota, Plymouth, MN
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The program is offered to institutions in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. For more information, please visit www.hematology.org/education/awards/trainee.cfm.
The American Society of Hematology (www.hematology.org) is the world’s largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatment of blood disorders. Its mission is to further the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting blood, bone marrow, and the immunologic, hemostatic, and vascular systems, by promoting research, clinical care, education, training, and advocacy in hematology.