American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy awards

Dr. Mary Flowers, professor emerita (Hematology and Oncology) received the ASTCT Public Service Award, recognizing an individual who has advanced the interests of the BMT and cellular therapy field or has given special service to patients and families.

After immigrating to Seattle in 1987 from Brazil, where she pioneered and established a public national hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) clinical and research program in Rio de Janeiro, Flowers developed her academic career in United States focused in chronic GVHD and other late HCT complications, with more than 300 publications in this field. 

She also established a world class survivorship post-transplant long-term follow up clinical service at the Fred Hutchinson that has served as a model for training hundreds of HCT physicians and other multidisciplinary professionals from all continents, a major contribution to the survivorship field of transplantation.

Dr. Erik Kimble, acting instructor (Hematology and Oncology) received the ASTCT New Investigator Award, designed to encourage clinical or laboratory research by young investigators in the BMT and cellular therapy fields. 

Dr. Kimble presented “Radioimmunotherapy to Enhance CAR T-Cell Efficacy against Acute Myeloid Leukemia” at the recent annual meeting.