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Sept. 16, 2024

Bhatt wins ASH award

The American Society of Hematology awarded Ami Bhatt the William Dameshek Prize. Dameshek was a groundbreaking hematologist, past ASH president and founder of the journal Blood. Bhatt is being recognized for pioneering the development and application of genomic approaches to studying the microbiome, which has improved outcomes for many human diseases. Bhatt will receive her award at the ASH annual meeting in December in San Diego.

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Ami Bhatt

Bhatt is a professor of medicine and genetics at Stanford University. Her characterizes the dynamics of the microbiome in patients with noncommunicable diseases, such as cancer and cardiometabolic disease, and explores how changes in the microbiome are associated with clinical outcomes. She applied microbiomics in the clinical setting to study the impact of gut decontamination on transplant outcomes and is leading large, ongoing studies of the microbiome in the context of graft-versus-host disease.

Bhatt has received many awards including the American Society of Microbiology Microbiome Data Prize, the National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine and the Human Genome Organization Chen Award of Excellence. She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and a Sloan Foundation Fellow.

“ASH is honored to recognize these outstanding hematologists, whose groundbreaking research, mentorship and dedication have profoundly advanced the field,” 2024 ASH President Mohandas Narla, said in a . “These visionary leaders have left an indelible mark on hematology and made a lasting impact on the lives of those living with blood disorders.”

Lim & Nu単ez named Pew scholars

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Ci Ji Lim
portrait of James Nu単ez
James Nu単ez

Ci Ji Lim and James Nu単ez have been selected as 2024 Pew biomedical scholars by the Pew Charitable Trusts. They are among 37 scientists joining Pew scholars and fellows programs in the biomedical sciences and cancer research who will each receive a multiyear grant to pursue their interests in cell biology, cancer, neuroscience and other critical research areas. 

Lim is an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His investigates the structure of human telomere maintenance machinery and how telomeres confer genome stability. Lim’s research could lead to new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for telomere-related diseases, such as constitutional marrow failure and pulmonary fibrosis. In 2022, Lim received a High Risk, High Reward New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health to study the human telomere chromatin landscape.

Nu単ez is an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. His  probes the mechanisms by which cells prevent transposable genetic elements from jumping around the genome. Nu単ez recently discovered new factors that are essential for DNA methylation in human cells and how they play a role in DNA packaging. Nu単ez is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray Fellow of HHMI. In 2023, he won a Bakar Fellows Spark Award from the Bakar Fellows Program at UC Berkeley and received funding, resources and mentorship for his project on CRISPR epigenetic editing for cancer immunotherapy.

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