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ISEH Honorific Society Awards – Present and Past Awardees

2025 Scientific Award Winners

Constanze Bonifer

2025 Donald Metcalf Award

Recipient: Constanze Bonifer

The 2025 Donald Metcalf Award goes to Dr. Constanze 'Conny' Bonifer for her outstanding work in the fields of epigenetic and gene regulatory processes regulating blood cell development and differentiation. Dr. Bonifer, Principal Research Fellow at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and Emeritus Professor of Experimental Hematology at the University of Birmingham, receives the highest honor bestowed by the Society for her distinguished work as an outstanding scientist, leader, and role model.

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Dr. Ulrich Steidl

2025 McCulloch & Till Award

Recipient: Ulrich Steidl

The recipient of the prestigious 2025 McCulloch & Till Award is Dr. Ulrich 'Uli' Steidl, for his outstanding contributions to the field of hematology, particularly his ground-breaking functional and mechanistic studies of HSCs, pre-cancerous stem cells and leukemia evolution.

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Adam Wilkinson

2025 Janet Rowley Award

Recipient: Adam Wilkinson

Dr. Adam Wilkinson is the recipient of the 2025 Janet Rowley Award for his outstanding contributions in the field of hematopoietic stem cell biology, in particular, his ground-breaking work on expanding HSCs ex vivo.

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2025 New Investigator Award Winners

These awards were determined during the ISEH 54th Annual Scientific Meeting in September 2025.

Student PhD/MD

First prize - Connie Eaves Award

Cih-Li (Amy) Hong, DVM, MS, University of Rochester MedicalCenter, USA

Local Bone Remodeling Shapes Hematopoietic Stem Cell(HSC)- Macrophage Interactions and Compartmentalized HSC Expansionunder Inflammatory Stress


Second prize - Hal Broxmeyer Award

Chang Xu, PhD, Institute of Hematology, Chinese Academy ofMedical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, China

Procr+Endothelial Progenitor Cells OrchestrateHematopoietic Stem Cell Function via Mesenchymal Stem Cell-MediatedRegulatory Crosstalk


Third prize - Greg Johnson Award

Arianna Smith, BS, University of Florida, USA

Endothelial Cell-derived Thrombospondin-1 NegativelyAffects Hematopoietic Function During Aging

Postdoctoral Fellow

First prize - Makio Ogawa Award

Ashley Kamimae-Lanning, PhD, MRC Weatherall Institute ofMolecular Medicine,University of Oxford, UK

Endogenous formaldehyde-induced DNA damage drivesstochastic stem cell loss and clonal hematopoiesis


Second prize - George Brecher Award

Marija Zarocsinceva, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK

A Step-wise and Deterministic Leukaemia Mouse Model with Endogenous Acquisition of Patient-relevant RTK–RAS Mutations


Third prize - Christa Muller-Sieburg Award

Tsuyoshi Fukushima, PhD, Institute of Medical Science University of Tokyo, Japan

Haematopoietic stem cells undergo bidirectional fate transitions in vivo