Acknowledgements 2017 Annual Report Table of Contents PAGE 2 PAGE 6 PAGE 6 Research Partnerships Advisors Grants PAGE 7 PAGE 10 PAGE 20 2017 National Donors Legacy Circle Recognition & Awards Program PAGE 20 PAGE 21 PAGE 22 Research Endowment Leadership Portfolios Funds 2 THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY Research Grants David Weinstock, MD, 2016 Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, 2017 Irene Ghobrial, MD, 2017 Specialized Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Center Center of Research Anas Younes, MD, 2017 Jolanta Grembecka, PhD, 2014 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Saro Armenian, DO, MPH, 2017 University of Michigan The Specialized Center of Research Center Beckman Research Institute of Program funds multidisciplinary David Guertin, PhD, 2016 City of Hope research by teams of leading-edge Dr. Anas Younes is funded in part University of Massachusetts Medical academic investigators that hastens by Patrick Allender, C.E. and Jean Uttiya Basu, PhD, 2016 School Andrews, Dr. Evelyn Bata, Beltway Columbia University Medical Center the discovery and development Katharine Hsu, MD, PhD, 2017 Cleaning Services, Valorie and of better treatments for leukemia, Julie Blander, PhD, 2015 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Melvin Booth, Cynthia and Joe lymphoma and myeloma patients. A Weill Cornell Medical College Center center is comprised of at least three Bruno, Danielle D’Aiello, Danaher independent research programs Corporation, The Irwin and Ginny Robert Bradley, MD, 2018* Morgan Huse, PhD, 2015 that are integrated and supported Edlavitch Foundation, LIUNA Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer by scientific core laboratories. Charitable Foundation, Al and Center Center Suzanne Lord, the J. Willard and Jan Burger, MD, PhD, 2014 Peng Ji, MD, PhD, 2018* William Carroll, MD, 2014 Alice S. Marriott Foundation, Cynthia The University of Texas MD Northwestern University New York University School of and Daniel Johnson, Caren and Anderson Cancer Center Medicine Phillip Merrick, Nancy and Patrick Amy Johnson, PhD, 2018* Minan, Beverly and Stephen Movius, Dr. Jan Burger is funded in part by The Ohio State University Dr. William Carroll is funded in part Wendy and Mike O’Neil, Jim and David Weinstein. by Thomas Moore. Michael Kharas, PhD, 2018* Gail Palmer, Kathleen and Edward Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Fernando Camargo, PhD, 2016 Irene Ghobrial, MD, 2014 Quinn, the Starfish Foundation, Center Virginia Sheldon Jerome Boston Children’s Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Institute John Koreth, MD, PhD, 2014 Foundation, and The William J. Jianjun Chen, PhD, 2018* Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Helen Heslop, MD, 2014 Shaw Family Foundation. University of Cincinnati Baylor College of Medicine Ming Li, PhD, 2015 Dr. Jianjun Chen is fully funded The following SCOR grant funding Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Carl June, MD, 2013 by The Marge & Charles Schott University of Pennsylvania Health ended during FY17 and was funded, Center in part or full, by a donor: Foundation. System Ivan Maillard, MD, PhD, 2014 Dr. Carl June is funded in part by the • Dr. John Byrd was funded in part Jerry Chipuk, PhD, 2017 University of Michigan Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Cora and John H. Davis Foundation, by Rita Cavanaugh and Gerald Ravindra Majeti, MD, PhD, 2016 Sinai the Topeka Community Foundation Kafka. Leland Stanford Junior University - Advisors Excel Team and an anon- Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhD, 2015 Constantine Mitsiades, MD, PhD, ymous donor. • Dr. Jonathan Licht was funded Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in part by the Kathryn Dent and 2017 Thomas Kipps, MD, PhD, 2014 John L. Tillman Charitable Fund. Tomasz Cierpicki, PhD, 2017 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute University of Michigan University of California, San Diego Golam Mohi, PhD, 2014 Tak Mak, PhD, 2017 Dr. Tomasz Cierpicki is fully funded SUNY Upstate Medical University by The Jake Wetchler Foundation. University Health Network Career Development Ann Mullally, MD, 2018* Ari Melnick, MD, 2016 Program (Scholars and Takeshi Egawa, MD, PhD, 2018* Brigham and Women’s Hospital Weill Cornell Medical College Clinical Scholars) Washington University School of Trista North, PhD, 2017 Stephen Nimer, MD, 2018* Medicine in St. Louis Beth Israel Deaconess Medical University of Miami The Career Development Program Thomas Fazzio, PhD, 2015 Center provides stipends to investigators Robert Orlowski, MD, PhD, 2018* University of Massachusetts Medical Ryan O’Connell, PhD, 2018* of exceptional promise in the early The University of Texas MD School University of Utah stages of their careers, helping Anderson Cancer Center them devote their careers to Benjamin Garcia, PhD, 2016 Ryoma Ohi, PhD, 2014 Andreas Strasser, MSc, FAA, PhD, research in leukemia, lymphoma or Perelman School of Medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center University of Pennsylvania 2018* myeloma. Sophie Paczesny, MD, PhD, 2015 Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Ramiro Garzon, MD, 2016 Indiana University Medical Research The Ohio State University *Newly awarded or renewed grants in Fiscal Year 2018 2017 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3 Christopher Park, MD, PhD, 2018* Hans-Guido Wendel, MD, 2015 Dan Dominissini, PhD, 2016 Vera Mugoni, PhD, 2016 New York University School of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer The University of Chicago Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Medicine Center Center Shannon Elf, PhD, 2018* Talya Salz, PhD, 2014 Dr. Hans-Guido Wendel is funded in Brigham and Women’s Hospital Shannon Oda, PhD, 2018* Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer part by Susan Reid. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Jonathan Esensten, MD, PhD, 2017 Center Center University of California, San Johnathan Whetstine, PhD, 2015 Joseph Scandura, MD, PhD, 2014 Francisco Dr. Shannon Oda is fully funded by Massachusetts General Hospital Weill Cornell Medical College Dr. Dhaval Dhru. Dr. Jonathan Esensten is funded in Catherine Wu, MD, 2015 Xiaobing Shi, PhD, 2017 part by an anonymous donor. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Tamara Ouspenskaia, PhD, 2018* The University of Texas MD Broad Institute Anderson Cancer Center Xiaochun Yu, MD, PhD, 2015 Craig Forester, MD, PhD, 2016 Beckman Research Institute of University of California, San Jelena Petrovic, PhD, 2017 Daniel Starczynowski, PhD, 2016 City of Hope Francisco University of Pennsylvania Health Cincinnati Children’s Hospital System Medical Center Shan Zha, MD, PhD, 2014 Jennifer Grants, PhD, 2018* Columbia University Medical Center British Columbia Cancer Agency Lars Plate, PhD, 2016 Kimberly Stegmaier, MD, 2014 The Scripps Research Institute Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Chengcheng Zhang, PhD, 2014 Bingqian Guo, PhD, 2018* The University of Texas Harvard Medical School Russell Ryan, MD, 2017 Ulrich Steidl, MD, PhD, 2015 Southwestern Medical Center Massachusetts General Hospital Albert Einstein College of Medicine Sarah Hainer, PhD, 2017 Jing Zhang, PhD, 2014 University of Massachusetts Medical Prabha Sarangi, PhD, 2016 Enrico Tiacci, MD, 2014 University of Wisconsin School Dana-Farber Cancer Institute University of Perugia Xiaolan Zhao, PhD, 2014 Lulu Hu, PhD, 2018* Anne Schuetz, PhD, 2017 Raoul Tibes, MD, PhD, 2015 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer The University of Chicago University of Toronto Mayo Clinic, Arizona Center Daichi Inoue, MD, PhD, 2018* Ashima Shukla, PhD, 2018* Wei Tong, PhD, 2014 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Center Discovery Institute Dr. Tong was funded in part by The Career Development Andrew Intlekofer, MD, PhD, 2016 Vipul Shukla, PhD, 2018* VWR Foundation. Program (Special Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Fellows, Clinical Center Immunology Saad Usmani, MD, 2018* Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital Special Fellows and Neeraj Joshi, MSc, PhD, 2016 Eric Smith, MD, PhD, 2018* Authority (Carolinas HealthCare Fellows) University of California, San Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer System) Francisco Center Shruti Bhatt, PhD, 2017 Dr. Saad Usmani is funded in Yoon-A Kang, PhD, 2018* Srividya Swaminathan, PhD, 2017 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute part by the Carolinas Healthcare Columbia University Medical Center Leland Stanford Junior University Foundation. George Burslem, MS, PhD, 2018* Richard Jason Lamontagne, PhD, Dr. Srividya Swaminathan is funded Yale University 2018* in part by an anonymous donor. Geoffrey Uy, MD, 2018* Sheng F. Cai, MD, PhD, 2017 The Wistar Institute Washington University in St. Louis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Elisa ten Hacken, PhD, 2018* Fides Lay, PhD, 2017 Christopher Vakoc, MD, PhD, 2016 Center Dana-Farber Cancer Institute University of California, Los Angeles Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Hye Ji Cha, PhD, 2017 Rachel Thijssen, PhD, 2018* I-Ju Lee, PhD, 2016 Loren Walensky, MD, PhD, 2015 Boston Children’s Hospital Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Medical Research Huan Chen, PhD, 2017 Stanley Lee, PhD, 2017 Matthew Walter, MD, 2014 Boston Children’s Hospital Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD, 2016 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Washington University School of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Ryan Corces, PhD, 2018* Center Medicine in St. Louis Leland Stanford Junior University Peter van Galen, PhD, 2017 Dr. Stanley Lee is funded in part by Roland Walter, MD, PhD, MS, 2015 Massachusetts General Hospital Ahmet Coskun, PhD, 2016 an anonymous donor. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Leland Stanford Junior University Leandro Venturutti, PhD, 2018* Center Qiming Liang, PhD, 2016 Weill Cornell Medical College Madzia