ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ANNUAL REPORT 2018 SECTION 1 TABLE Research Grants 2 OF SECTION 2 CONTENTS Partnerships 7 SECTION 3 Advisors 7 SECTION 4 2018 National Recognition & Awards Program 8 SECTION 5 Donors 11 SECTION 6 Legacy Circle 23 SECTION 7 Initiatives & Portfolios 24 SECTION 8 Endowment Funds 24 SECTION 9 Leadership 25 2 THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY Research Grants Specialized Center Andreas Strasser, PhD, FAA, MSc, 2018 Jason Butler, PhD, 2019* Maria Figueroa, MD, 2019* Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Hackensack Meridian Health University of Miami of Research Medical Research Dr. Jason Butler is fully funded Benjamin Garcia, PhD, 2016 The Specialized Center of Research Dr. Andreas Strasser is funded in by Celgene. Perelman School of Medicine Program funds multidisciplinary part by Yetta and Harvey Saltzman. at the University of Pennsylvania Fernando Camargo, PhD, 2016 research by teams of leading-edge David Weinstock, MD, 2016 Boston Children’s Hospital Ramiro Garzon, MD, 2016 academic investigators that hastens Dana-Farber Cancer Institute The Ohio State University the discovery and development Grant Challen, PhD, 2019* of better treatments for leukemia, Anas Younes, MD, 2017 Washington University in St. Louis Irene Ghobrial, MD, 2017 Sloan Kettering Institute for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute lymphoma and myeloma patients. A Jianjun Chen, PhD, 2018 Cancer Research center is comprised of at least three University of Cincinnati Dr. Irene Ghobrial is funded in part independent research programs Dr. Anas Younes is funded in part by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Jianjun Chen is funded in part that are integrated and supported by C.E. and Jean Andrews and by The Marge and Charles Schott Jolanta Grembecka, PhD, 2013 by scientific core laboratories. Scott and Cathy Zeilinger. Foundation. Regents of the University of Michigan William Carroll, MD, 2013 Robert Chen, MD, 2019* New York University School Beckman Research Institute of Dr. Jolanta Grembecka is funded of Medicine Career Development Program (Scholars and the City of Hope in part by Team Blake. Dr. William Carroll is funded in Clinical Scholars) Dr. Robert Chen is fully funded David Guertin, PhD, 2016 part by “In honor of Diane.” by Toni and Emmet Stephenson. University of Massachusetts Medical School John Cleveland, PhD, 2019* The Career Development Program Jerry Chipuk, PhD, 2017 H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center provides stipends to investigators Icahn School of Medicine at Katharine Hsu, MD, PhD, 2017 & Research Institute of exceptional promise in the early Mount Sinai Sloan Kettering Institute for stages of their careers, helping Cancer Research Helen Heslop, MD, 2019* Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhD, 2015 them devote their careers to Baylor College of Medicine Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Morgan Huse, PhD, 2015 research in leukemia, lymphoma Sloan Kettering Institute for Craig Jordan, PhD, 2019* or myeloma. Tomek Cierpicki, PhD, 2017 Cancer Research University of Colorado Denver, Regents of the University Anschutz Medical Campus Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, 2017 of Michigan Keisuke Ito, MD, PhD, 2019* Sloan Kettering Institute for Albert Einstein College of Tak Mak, PhD, 2017 Simona Colla, PhD, 2019* Cancer Research Medicine, Inc. University Health Network The University of Texas MD Ari Melnick, MD, 2016 Philippe Armand, MD, PhD, 2019* Anderson Cancer Center Peng Ji, MD, PhD, 2018 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Northwestern University Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical Alexey Danilov, MD, PhD, 2019* College of Cornell University Saro Armenian, DO, MPH, 2017 Oregon Health & Science University Hao Jiang, PhD, 2019* Beckman Research Institute of the University of Virginia Dr. Ari Melnick is funded in part by Dr. Alexey Danilov is funded in part City of Hope the LIUNA Charitable Foundation, by Dr. Evelyn Bata. Amy Johnson, PhD, 2018** the Melryder Foundation, Angela Uttiya Basu, PhD, 2016 The Ohio State University Matthew Davids, MD, 2019* and Gary Trovato, The Escher The Trustees of Columbia University Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Michael Kharas, PhD, 2018 Foundation, and the Jim Jacobs in the City of New York, Columbia Sloan Kettering Institute for Charitable Foundation. University Medical Center Dr. Matthew Davids is funded in part Cancer Research by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Stephen Nimer, MD, 2018 Julie Blander, PhD, 2015 Ming Li, PhD, 2015 University of Miami Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical Todd Druley, MD, PhD, 2019* Sloan Kettering Institute for College of Cornell University Washington University in St. Louis Dr. Stephen Nimer is funded in Cancer Research part by the University of Miami Robert Bradley, MD, 2018 Takeshi Egawa, MD, PhD, 2018 Ravindra Majeti, MD, PhD, 2016 and an anonymous donor. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Washington University School of Board of Trustees of the Leland Research Center Medicine in St. Louis Robert Orlowski, MD, PhD, 2018 Stanford Junior University The University of Texas MD Thomas Fazzio, PhD, 2015 Shannon McKinney-Freeman, Anderson Cancer Center University of Massachusetts PhD, 2019* Medical School St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital * Newly awarded or renewed grants in Fiscal Year 2019 ** Grantee prematurely terminated award in Fiscal Year 2018 2018 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 3 Constantine Mitsiades, MD, PhD, 2017 Roland Walter, MD, PhD, 2015 Huan Chen, PhD, 2017 Richard Jason Lamontagne, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Fred Hutchinson Cancer Boston Children’s Hospital PhD, 2018 Research Center The Wistar Institute Ann Mullally, MD, 2018 Pan-Yu Chen, PhD, 2019* Brigham and Women’s Hospital Dr. Roland Walter is funded in The Regents of the University Fides Lay, PhD, 2017 memory of Dr. Oliver Press. of California, San Francisco The Regents of the University Lakshmi Nayak, MD, 2019* of California, Los Angeles Dana-Farber Cancer Institute G. Greg Wang, PhD, 2019* Ryan Corces, PhD, 2018 The University of North Carolina Board of Trustees of the Leland Ruiting Lin, PhD, 2018 Trista North, PhD, 2017 at Chapel Hill Stanford Junior University Emory University Boston Children’s Hospital Hans-Guido Wendel, MD, 2015 Madzia Crossley, PhD, 2017 Priya Mathur, PhD, 2018 Ryan O’Connell, PhD, 2018 Sloan Kettering Institute for Board of Trustees of the Leland The University of Chicago The University of Utah Cancer Research Stanford Junior University Demis Menolfi, PhD, 2019* Sophie Paczesny, MD, PhD, 2015 Johnathan Whetstine, PhD, 2015 Sarah Deng, PhD, 2017** The Trustees of Columbia University Indiana University Massachusetts General Hospital New York University Medical Center in the City of New York, Columbia Eirini Papapetrou, MD, PhD, 2019* University Medical Center Catherine Wu, MD, 2015 Daphné Dupéré-Richer, PhD, 2019* Icahn School of Medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute University of Florida Linde Miles, PhD, 2019* Mount Sinai Sloan Kettering Institute for Dr. Catherine Wu is funded in part Shannon Elf, PhD, 2018 Christopher Park, MD, PhD, 2018 Cancer Research by Yetta and Harvey Saltzman. Brigham and Women’s Hospital New York University School Coraline Mlynarczyk, PhD, 2019* of Medicine Jianhua Yu, PhD, 2019* Jonathan Esensten, MD, PhD, 2017 Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical Beckman Research Institute of the The Regents of the University of Zhijian Qian, PhD, 2019* College of Cornell University City of Hope California, San Francisco University of Illinois at Chicago Lucia Morgado Palacin, PhD, 2018 Dr. Jianhua Yu is fully funded by the Jennifer Grants, PhD, 2018 Christiane Querfeld, MD, PhD, 2019* The Trustees of Columbia University Schwartz Ward Family Foundation. British Columbia Cancer Beckman Research Institute of the in the City of New York, Columbia Agency Branch City of Hope Xiaochun Yu, MD, PhD, 2015 University Medical Center Beckman Research Institute of the Zhaohui Gu, PhD, 2019* Dr. Christiane Querfeld is fully Tomoya Muto, MD, PhD, 2019* City of Hope St. Jude Children’s funded by the Schwartz Ward Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Hospital Family Foundation. Amer Zeidan, MBBS, 2019* Medical Center Yale University Bingqian Guo, PhD, 2018 Michael Savona, MD, 2019* Shannon Oda, PhD, 2018 Harvard Medical School Vanderbilt University Medical Center Dr. Amer Zeidan is funded in part Fred Hutchinson Cancer by Yale University. Sarah Hainer, PhD, 2017 Xiaobing Shi, PhD, 2017 Research Center University of Pittsburgh The University of Texas MD Tamara Ouspenskaia, PhD, 2018 Anderson Cancer Center Lulu Hu, PhD, 2018 Broad Institute, Inc. Career Development The University of Chicago Daniel Starczynowski, PhD, 2016 Program (Special Jelena Petrovic, PhD, 2017 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Daichi Inoue, MD, PhD, 2018 The Trustees of the University Medical Center Fellows, Clinical Sloan Kettering Institute for of Pennsylvania, Medical Center Cancer Research Ulrich Steidl, MD, PhD, 2015 Special Fellows and Bibiana Rius, PhD, 2019* Albert Einstein College of Fellows) Sizun Jiang, PhD, 2019* The Scripps Research Institute Medicine, Inc. Board of Trustees of the Leland Alejo Rodriguez Fraticelli, PhD, 2019* Brandon Aubrey, PhD, 2019* Stanford Junior University Raoul Tibes, MD, PhD, 2015 Boston Children’s Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute New York University School Gloria Jih, PhD, 2019* Anne Schuetz, PhD, 2017** of Medicine Will Bailis, PhD, 2019* Regents of the University University of Toronto Yale University of Michigan Saad Usmani, MD, 2018 Noha Sharafeldin, MD, PhD, 2019* Carolinas HealthCare System Yael Ben-Nun, PhD, 2019* Emily Johnston, MD, 2019* The University of Alabama at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Board of Trustees of the Leland Dr. Saad Usmani is funded