ASH Bridge Grant Award Recipients
The following individuals received the ASH Bridge Grant, a program established in 2012 to help member hematologists continue their critical blood disease research amidst severe funding reductions for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Fifteenth Round (2020)
- Wadie Bahou, MD
SUNY At Stony Brook - Alexey Danilov, MD
City of Hope - Gabriel Ghiaur, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Javier Ogembo, MD
City of Hope - Neil Shah, MD, PhD
University of California San Francisco
Fourteenth Round (2020)
- Lawrence Brass, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA - Jorg Bungert, PhD
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL - Randall Davis, MD
University of Alabama At Birmingham
Birmingham, AL - H. Daniel Lacorazza, PhD
Baylor Collage of Medicine
Houston, TX - Qing Li, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI - Nicolas Nassar, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, OH - Shunbin Ning, PhD
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN - Dinesh Rao, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA - Jianjun Zhao, MD, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland, OH
Thirteenth Round (2019)
- Srividya Bhaskara, PhD
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT - Renata Grozovsky, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA - Sarah Holstein, MD, PhD
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE - Shawn Jobe, MD
Blood Center of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI - Ya-Huei Kuo, PhD
City of Hope
Duarte, CA - Kim Nichols, MD
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN - Barbara Sherry, PhD
The Feinstein Institute For Medical Research
Manhasset, NY - Roland Walter, MD, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA - Karina Yazdanbakhsh, PhD
New York Blood Center
New York, NY
Twelfth Round (2019)
- Ravi Bhatia, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL - Kevin Bunting, PhD
Emory University
Atlanta, GA - David Fruman, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA - Niall Howlett, PhD
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI - Zhi Liu, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA - Troy Lund, MD, PhD
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN - Rinku Majumder, PhD
LSU Health Science Center
New Orleans, LA - Joel Pomerantz, PhD
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD - Yogen Saunthararajah, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH - Christopher Sturgeon, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
Eleventh Round (2018)
- Aniruddha Deshpande, PhD
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
La Jolla, CA - Elizabeth A. Eklund, MD
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL - David W. Essex, MD
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA - Mark D. Fleming, MD, DPhil
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA - Vahid Afshar-Kharghan, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX - Mohamed L. Sorror, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA - Robert Welner, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL - James W. Young, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
Tenth Round (2018)
- Mohammed Azam, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH - Sung Won Choi, MD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI - Adrienne Dorrance, PhD
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH - Zhijun Duan, PhD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA - Sandra Haberichter, PhD
BloodCenter of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI - Peter Klein, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA - Gary Kupfer, MD
Yale University
New Haven, CT - Dougald Monroe, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC - Gerald Morris, MD, PhD
University of California
La Jolla, CA - Eric Mullins, MD
Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation
Cincinnati, OH - Ulhas Naik, PhD
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA - Perumal Thiagarajan, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX - Cecelia Valrie, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA - Francisco Vega, MD, PhD
University of Miami
Miami, FL - Nancy Zeleznik-Le, PhD
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL
Ninth Round (2017)
- John H. Bushweller, PhD
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA - Selina Chen-Kiang, PhD
Weill-Cornell Medicine
New York, NY - Fotini Gounari, PhD, DSc
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL - Akil Merchant, MD
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA - Anupama Narla, MD
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Eighth Round (2017)
- Weiguo Cui, PhD
Blood Center of Wisconsin, Blood Research Institute
Milwaukee, WI - Patrick Gallagher, MD
Yale University
New Haven, CT - Silvia Giannini, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA - Vivian Oehler, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA - Yang Yang, MD
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Seventh Round (2016)
- Jaehyung Cho, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL - Clark W. Distelhorst, MD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, OH - Siegfried Janz, MD, DSc
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Iowa City, IA - Ann Mullally, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA - Enrico Novelli, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA - Samir Parekh, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY - Zhijian Qian, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL - Matthew Riese, MD, PhD
BloodCenter of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI - Fenghuang Zhan, MD, PhD
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Sixth Round (2015)
- Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC - Alison A. Bertuch, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX - Athar Chishti, PhD
Tufts University
Medford, MA - Hervé Falet, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA - Carolyn A. Felix, MD
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA - Eric F. Grabowski, MD, ScD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA - Mamta Gupta, PhD
Mayo Clinic
New York, NY - Peter Kurre, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR - Izidore S. Lossos, MD
Unviersity of Miami
Miami, FL - Takahiro Maeda, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA - Silke Paust, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX - Jean-Francois M. Rual, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Fifth Round (2015)
- Wendy Cozen, DO, MPH
Keck School Medicine of USC
Los Angeles, California - Jing-fei Dong, MD, PhD
Puget Sound Blood Center and Program
Seattle, WA - Todd E. Druley, MD, PhD
Washington University
St. Louis, MO - Marie-Dominique Filippi, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation
Cincinnati, OH - Saghi Ghaffari, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY - Neil A. Goldenberg, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
St. Petersburg, FL - Renhao Li, PhD
Emory University
Atlanta, GA - Jeffrey M. Lipton, MD, PhD
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research/Cohen Children's Medical Center
Manhasset, NY - Runqing Lu, PhD
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE - Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD
BloodCenter of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI - Matthew A. Young, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Fourth Round (2014)
- Fotis Asimakopoulos, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI - Lisa Borghesi, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA - Tatiana V. Byzova, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH - Mark Y. Chiang, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI - Diane F. Jelinek, PhD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN - W. Stratford May, MD, PhD
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL - Frits van Rhee, MD, PhD
University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, AR
Third Round (2014)
- Joel S. Bennett, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA - John G. Conboy, PhD
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Washington, DC - John K. Cowell, PhD
Georgia Regents University
Augusta, GA - Adam N. Goldfarb, MD
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA - Jordan Jacobelli, PhD
National Jewish Health
Denver, CO - Michael B. Jordan, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Cincinnati, OH - Neil E. Kay, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN - Keith McCrae, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, OH - Joanne E. Murphy-Ullrich, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL - Elizabeta Nemeth, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA - Trista E. North, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA - Alvin H. Schmaier, MD
Case Western Reserve University Medicine
Cleveland, OH - Demin Wang, PhD
BloodCenter of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI - Don M. Wojchowski, PhD
Maine Medical Center Research Institute; Tufts University School of Medicine
Portland, ME; Boston, MA
Second Round (2013)
- Lucio H. Castilla, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Boston, MA - Seth J. Corey, MD
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL - Utpal P. Dave, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN - Paul A. Ney, MD
New York Blood Center
New York, NY - Carl D. Novina, MD, PhD
Dana-Faber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA - Giuseppina Nucifora, PhD
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL - Robert F. Paulson, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA - Vijay M. Rao, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Tyler, TX - Jianguo Tao, MD, PhD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, FL - Michael J. Thirman, MD
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL - Edmund K. Waller, MD, PhD
Emory University
Atlanta, GA - X. Long Zheng, MD, PhD
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
First Round (2013)
- Xiuli An, MD, PhD
New York Blood Center
New York, NY - Benjamin Braun, MD, PhD
The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA - Hanno Hock, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA - Steven Lentz, MD, PhD
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA - Suzanne Lentzsch, MD, PhD
Columbia University
New York, NY - Zhenyu Li, MD
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY - Debra Newman, PhD
BloodCenter Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI - Joseph Palumbo, MD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cinncinnati, OH - Christopher Porter, MD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver, CO - Michele Redell, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX - Merav Socolovsky, MD, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA - Edward Srour, PhD
Indiana University
Indianapolis, IN - Harmut Weiler, PhD
BloodCenter of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI - Yu-Chung Yang, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH - Nabeel Yaseen, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO - Bihui Hilda Ye, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY - Sandra Zinkel, MD, PhD
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN