10 Young Clinicians, Investigators

Selected for ASBMT Training Course

Sixteen young clinicians and investigators have been selected to participate in the second annual ASBMT Transplant Clinical Research Training Course, to be held July 30 to Aug. 4 in Park City, Utah. 

The five-day course assists fellows and young faculty in career paths toward successful clinical research in blood and marrow transplantation.  The participants were selected competitively from among submitted applications, each including a proposed research project. 

Major funding for the clinical research training course is being provided by Merck and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals.

The selected scholars are:

·         Jonathan Benjamin, MD, PhD, Stanford University Medical Center

·         Christina Castilla-Llorente, MD, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

·         William Clark, MD, MS, Vanderbilt University

·         Sung Choi, MD, University of Michigan Cancer Center

·         Luciano Costa, MD, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina

·         David Delgado, MD, University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital

·         Christine Duncan, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

·         Hong Liu, MD, PhD, University of Florida Shands Cancer Center

·         Chrystal Louis, MD, MPH, Baylor College of Medicine

·         Taiga Nishihori, MD, Yale University School of Medicine

·         Iskra Pusic, MD, Washington University School of Medicine

·         Jessica Shafer, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

·         Sophie Stein, MD, University of Pennsylvania

·         Jonathan Storey, MD, Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center

·         Monica Thakar, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

·         Jeffrey Venstrom, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

The course directors are Daniel Weisdorf, MD, of the University of Minnesota, and Nelson Chao, MD, of Duke University.  They, together with nine other faculty members, will lead the sessions, as well as share their career stories and counsel.  Free time for rest, recreation and creative thinking is built into the schedule.

The faculty members for the transplant clinical research training course are:

·         Tracy Bergemann, University of Minnesota

·         Chris Bredeson, MD, MSc, Medical College of Wisconsin

·         Corey Cutler, MD, MPH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

·         Stella Davies, MD, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital

·         Armand Keating, MD, University of Tornoto/Princess Margaret Hospital

·         Ginna LaPort, MD, Stanford University

·         Brent Logan, PhD, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research

·         Jeffrey Miller, MD, University of Minnesota

·         Robert Soiffer, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute