27 November 2019

The winners of the inaugural ASH-BSH Abstract Achievement Award have been announced.

We have a partnership with the American Society for Hematology to recognise the high-scoring abstracts of three BSH Members in training. Each winner receives a $2000 grant as well as complimentary registration to this year’s ASH annual meeting

We would like to congratulate this year's ASH-BSH Abstract Achievement Award winners who are:

Sam Alimam, DHCS, MD
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
Abstract 308
Molecular, Epigenetic and Gene Expression Profiling of Triple Negative Essential Thrombocythaemia

Claire Burney, MBBS
University Hospitals Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Abstract 701
Ibrutinib for Relapsed Mantle Cell Lymphoma after Standard First Line Therapy and ASCT Is Efficacious but Does Not Overcome the Impact of POD24 – a Retrospective Study from the LWP-EBMT

Konstantinos Tzelepis, PhD
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Abstract 403
Pharmacological Inhibition of the RNA m6a Writer METTL3 As a Novel Therapeutic Strategy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

See the Achievement Award page for more information on the award and whether you would be eligible to apply.