The American Society of Hematology, or ASH, honored four gators from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy — two postdoctoral associates and two graduate students — at its 61st Annual Meeting in Orlando, Dec. 7-10.
Postdoctoral associates Roya Rafiee, B.S.N., M.Sc., Ph.D., and Yonghan He, M.D., Ph.D., received Abstract Achievement Awards, along with graduate student Abdelrahman Elsayed, M.Sc. Additionally, graduate student Mohammed Gbadamosi received a Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award.
The Lamba lab, headed by Jatinder Lamba, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacotherapy and translational research, was well represented with three winners coming from the lab: Rafiee, Elsayed and Gbadamosi. He works in the Zhou lab under pharmacodynamics professor Daohong Zhou, M.D.
ASH gives Abstract Achievement Awards to trainees with high-scoring annual meeting abstracts of which they are the first or senior author and presenter. The Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award goes to select graduate students to honor their research accomplishments and to recruit and retain underrepresented minority graduate students in the field of hematology.