American Society of Hematology has announced the 2025 Scholar Award Recipients

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) has announced the recipients of its 2025 Scholar Awards, recognizing 35 early-career researchers dedicated to advancing the field of hematology.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the ASH Scholar Award, a program that has played a pivotal role in supporting researchers as they transition from training programs to independent research careers.

The ASH Scholar Award continues to be one of the Society’s most prestigious and impactful research funding initiatives.

Since its inception in 1985, the ASH Scholar Award has provided essential financial support to hematologists across the United States and Canada.

These researchers focus on basic, translational, and clinical research aimed at advancing the understanding and treatment of blood disorders.

The program offers varying levels of funding based on the recipient’s career stage, with $100,000 awarded to Fellows, $125,000 for those advancing from Fellow to Faculty, and $150,000 for Junior Faculty.

This funding enables recipients to pursue groundbreaking research and contribute to innovations in the field of hematology.

The ASH recipients of the 2025 Scholar Awards are:

Basic/Translational Research Fellows

– Juan Barajas, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
– Gabriele Casirati, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital.
– Meng-Wei Ko, DVM, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles.
– Srikanth Kodali, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine.
– Andri Leo Lemarquis, MD, PhD, City of Hope Cancer Care and Research.
– Anh Ngo, PhD, University of California, San Diego.
– Maria Sirenko, PhD, New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
– Lara Wahlster, MD, PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital.
– Andrew Young, MD, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis.

Basic/Translational Research Fellow to Faculty Scholars

– Tomohiro Aoki, MD, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Center.
– Derek Janssens, PhD, Van Andel Institute.
– Hanzhi Luo, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
– Irina Portier, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis.
– Divij Verma, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Basic/Translational Research Junior Faculty

– Roger Belizaire, MD, PhD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
– Ju Fang Chang, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis.
– Andrew Dunbar, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center.
– Benjamin Durham, MD, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.
– Franco Izzo, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
– Courtney Jones, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
– Peter Miller, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital.
– Tanaya Shree, MD, PhD, Oregon Health and Science University.
– Pamela Sung, MD, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
– Elisa Ten Hacken, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College.
– Christina Termini, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.
– Eric Wang, PhD, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine.

Clinical Research Fellows

– Mathew Angelos, MD, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
– Lauren Klein, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Clinical Research Junior Faculty

– Rusha Bhandari, MD, MS, City of Hope Cancer Care and Research.
– Matthew Frigault, MD, MS, Massachusetts General Hospital.
– Sanghee Hong, MD, Duke University.
– Melissa Loh, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center.
– Anna Parks, MD, University of Utah.
– Natasha Szuber, MD, MSc, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal University.
– Aman Wadhwa, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

For more information, visit the ASH website.