Joe Pelt, a fourth year student in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program has been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) as one of nine graduate students receiving the 2024 ASH Graduate Hematology Award (AHGA). This award aims to encourage graduate students in the United States and Canada to pursue a career in academic hematology.
Mr. Pelt’s ASH Graduate Award will support his work in the lab of Dan Landau, in collaboration with Elisa ten Hacken, at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he is investigating the early molecular events that initiate Richter’s transformation in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. “Patient outcomes after Richter’s transformation are very poor,” Joe explains. “We hope to identify early cellular events that precede clinical symptom onset.” To support his work, Joe will receive funding totaling $80,000 over a two-year period.
Joe Pelt
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