ASH is pleased to recognize the following abstract presenters who received the highest ranking in their categories of undergraduate student, medical student, graduate student, resident physician, and post-doctoral fellow.
Undergraduate Student
Nina Shaver
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
Abstract 913: Effect of Epitope Specific Antibodies on Single Platelet Physiology with Implications for Immune Thrombocytopenia Purpura (Session: 311. Disorders of Platelet Number or Function: Clinical and Epidemiological: Mechanisms and Treatment of ITP)
4:30 p.m. Monday, December 12
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 220-222
Medical Student
Varun Sudunagunta
Columbia University
Abstract 284: Dysplastic Erythropoiesis in Stag2 Loss Exhibits Defective Nuclear Condensation and Hemophagocytosis (101. Red Cells and Erythropoiesis, Excluding Iron I)
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Saturday, December 10
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 391-392
Resident Physician
Lauren Meyer, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Abstract 716: A Transcriptional Classifier Identifies Pediatric T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemias at High Risk for End of Induction Minimal Residual Disease (618. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemias: Biomarkers, Molecular Markers and Minimal Residual Disease in Diagnosis and Prognosis: High-risk T-ALL and Prognostic Biomarkers)
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon Monday, December 12
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Great Hall B/C
Graduate Student
Alexandra Preston
University of Oxford
Abstract 2: An Ancient Transcriptional Hub Couples Developmentally Regulated Gene Expression with Metabolism during Erythropoiesis (Plenary Scientific Session)
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sunday, December 11
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Hall E
Postdoctoral Fellow
Richard Voit, MD, PhD
Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Harvard Medical School Abstract 409: Regulated Expression of GATA1 As a Gene Therapy Cure for Diamond-Blackfan Anemia (509. Bone Marrow Failure and Cancer Predisposition Syndromes: Congenital: From Biology to Therapeutics)
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Sunday, December 11
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 260-262
