Award Recipients
2024
Support is provided for translational and clinical research for Richard Ho MD, MSCI and Brianna Smith MD, MS.
2023
Support is provided for translational and clinical research for Richard Ho MD, MSCI and Brianna Smith MD, MS.
2022
Richard Ho MD, MSCI is studying pharmacogenomics, to better develop personalized medicine approaches. He is an attending physician on our stem cell transplant service and the Director of our fellowship program. Sara Zarnegar-Lumley MD is studying leukemia and is leading clinical trials in acute lymphoblastic and acute myeloid leukemia.
2021
Richard Ho MD, MSCI, Sara Zarnegar-Lumley MD. Kasey Jackson MD, a fellow working under the supervision of Adam Esbenshade MD, MSCI, studied infectious complications in stem cell transplant patients, using a predictive model developed by Dr. Esbenshade. She graduated in 2021 and is now doing a Neuro-Oncology Fellowship at National Children’s Hospital in Washington DC.
2020
Sara Zarnegar-Lumley MD., Peter Hsu MD, MPH, a fellow working under the supervision of Debra Friedman MD, MS studied the implications of the Affordable Care Act on access and cost of oral chemotherapy agents for pediatric cancer. He graduated in 2020 and is faculty at Boston Children’s Hospital in Pediatric Oncology. Saara Kaviany, MD studied primary immune deficiencies and the intersection between immunodeficiency and cancer. She is now faculty at University of Chicago in the stem cell transplant program, developing a focus there in immunodeficiency and cancer.
2019
Peter Hsu MD, MPH, Saara Kaviany, MD.
2018
Peter Hsu MD, MPH.
2017
Katherine Watson, MD, MSCI, a fellow working under the supervision of Debra Friedman MD, MS studied the impact of health literacy on parent’s ability to give oral chemotherapy correctly. She is faculty in pediatric oncology at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters. Nicholas Richardson, MD, MPH, a fellow working under the supervision of Debra Friedman MD, MS, studied the long-term effects of survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma. He is a researcher at the Federal Drug and Food Administration, studying oncology drugs.
2016
Katherine Watson, MD, MSCI, Nicholas Richardson, MD, MPH. Christa Krupski, MD, a fellow under the supervision of Carrie Kitko MD studied graft versus host disease in stem cell transplant. She is faculty in stem cell transplant at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
2015
Christa Krupski, MD., Patrick Grohar, MD, PhD, studied the biology of Ewing sarcoma. He is now faculty at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
2014
Emmanuel Volanakis, MD studied the biology of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He is now leading our clinical sickle cell program at Vanderbilt. Jaime Libes, MD, under the supervision of Harold Lovvorn, MD (Pediatric Surgery) studied the biology and disparities in Wilms tumor. She is now faculty in pediatric oncology and global oncology at University of Illinois, Peoria.
2013
Jaime Libes, MD.
