Now in its third cohort, the Minority Hematology Graduate Award (MHGA) encourages graduate students pursing a PhD from historically under-represented minority groups in the United States and Canada to pursue a career in academic hematology. The award provides funding for students to conduct hematology-focused research. It is open to students in their first, second, or third year of graduate school at the time of application.
Please join ASH in congratulating the eight MHGA winners for 2022.
2022 WINNERS
Oluwatosin Ayinde — The Ohio State University; Design and Optimization of CDK9 Degraders for In Vivo Activity to Effectively Target Acute Myeloid Leukemia; Mentor: James Fuchs, MD, PhD
Carla Bertulfo — Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Identifying Regulators of Gamma Secretase Inhibitor Sensitivity and Resistance in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia; Mentor: Adolfo Ferrando, MD
Quenton Bubb — Stanford School of Medicine; Development of scFv-based and Natural Ligandbased Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T Cells as a Dual Conditioning and Immunotherapeutic Agents for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) and Treatment of Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML); Mentor: Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, PhD
Conroy Field — University of Pennsylvania; Neutrophil- Activating Peptide 2 (NAP2) As a Novel Antigenic Target in Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT); Mentor: Mortimer Poncz, MD
Kristopher Knight — Emory University; Development of a Novel L-Asparaginase With Enhanced Properties Using Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction; Mentor: Sunil Raikar, MD
Sarah Mansour — Emory University; D4-mediated Regulation of von Willebrand Factor (VWF) by ADAMTS13; Mentor: Renhao Li, PhD
Maria Feliz Norberto — Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Deciphering Genotype-Environmental Interactions That Drive Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Dysfunction; Mentor: Teresa Bowman, MD, PhD
Raven Watson — The University of Chicago; Functional Characterization of CUX1 in t-MN Pathogenesis; Mentor: Megan McNerney, MD, PhD
