ASH News Daily 2017 - Issue 2 - B-6

ASH News Daily

Page B-6

Sunday, December 10, 2017

career enhancement awardS

Dan Landau, MD, PhD, Receives Joanne Levy Memorial Award

an Landau, MD, PhD, of the
Weill Cornell Medical College, was presented with
the 2017 Joanne Levy, MD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement. This award is presented to
the ASH Scholar Award recipient
with the highest-scoring abstract
at the ASH annual meeting, as determined by the appointed abstract
reviewers. It honors the memory
and legacy of Dr. Joanne Levy, who
passed away in 2004. Dr. Levy was a
past Scholar Award recipient and a
respected ASH member. She graduated from Harvard Medical School
and went on to receive many esteemed awards and honors, including the ASH Junior Faculty Scholar
Award in 2000. The Joanne Levy
Memorial Award is made possible
by the Levy family to continue her
legacy and promote excellence in
hematology research.

Dr. Landau is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of
Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Meyer Cancer Center at
Weill Cornell Medical College in
New York, as well as core member
of the New York Genome Center.
Dr. Landau emphasizes the honor
he felt upon learning he had been
selected, and he highlights the importance of the support that ASH
provides for hematology scientists.
"It is yet another demonstration
of ASH's central role in fostering
the next generation of hematology
scientists, a support that has been
invaluable to my personal growth
as a clinician-scientist dedicated to
blood malignancies. In this sense,
ASH encourages us to continue to
innovate, and to take on ambitious
and high-risk challenges, such as
the project selected for this award.
We hope that by integrating basic

"In this sense, ASH
encourages us to
continue to innovate,
and to take on ambitious
and high-risk challenges,
such as the project
selected for this award."

biological questions, cutting-edge
molecular tools, and advanced
computational biology, we can
bring forth new insights into the biology of blood cancers."
Dr. Landau will present his oral
abstract titled, "Single-Cell Methylome and Transcriptome High-Resolution Maps Define the Effects of
Epigenetic Modifiers on the Landscape of Hematopoietic Differentiation" (Session 602. Disordered
Gene Expression in Hematologic
Malignancy, including Disordered

How I Treat

Dan Landau, MD, PhD

Epigenetic Regulation: Disordered
epigenetic regulation in myeloid
and lymphoid leukemia) tomorrow
at 7:00 a.m. in Room C202-C204 of
the Georgia World Congress Center.

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