Medical Scientist Training Program Student Wins ASH Award

Katelyn Melgar, a student in the College of Medicine’s Medical Scientist Training Program, received a 2015 Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and presented her abstract, titled "Novel Small Molecule FLT3 Inhibitors for the Treatment of FLT3-ITD AML,” at the 57th ASH annual meeting Dec. 5-8 in Orlando.

Each year, ASH offers these awards, which are merit-based, to select graduate students to acknowledge the accomplishments of and retain minority graduate students in the field of hematology through exposure to its annual meeting.

Melgar’s focus is on immunology, and she’s currently in the lab of Daniel Starczynowski, PhD, associate professor in UC’s Department of Pediatrics and a researcher in the Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.