ASH Giuseppe Bigi Memorial Award Grant

The ASH Giuseppe Bigi Memorial Award, established in 2015, honors an Italian trainee presenting the highest-scoring abstract related to hematopoiesis at the ASH annual meeting. The recipient, who must be affiliated with an Italian institution, receives a $4,000 award and a $1,000 travel allowance. In the absence of suitable candidates, awards may extend to related research categories. The award is supported by the Giuseppe Bigi Association, honoring Dr. Bigi's contributions to stem cell research.

Established in 2015, the ASH Giuseppe Bigi Memorial Award recognizes an Italian trainee (undergraduate, medical, or graduate student, resident physician, or post-doctoral fellow) based at an Italian institution who is the first or senior author and presenter and who has the highest-scoring abstract submitted to the ASH annual meeting in the field of hematopoiesis and stem cells. In the absence of suitable candidates in this field, the award will go to abstracts submitted in related categories of hematopoiesis, followed by abstracts submitted by those covering research in the field of immunology. The recipient shall receive a $4,000 award. Awardees also receive a $1,000 travel allowance for travel to the annual meeting* and complimentary registration to the current year’s ASH annual meeting.
Travel reimbursement is contingent on presenting in person at the annual meeting and is not applicable for virtual presentations.
ASH Giuseppe Bigi Abstract Achievement Award
The ASH Giuseppe Bigi Abstract Achievement Award recognizes a meritorious Italian trainee (undergraduate, medical, or graduate student, resident physician, or post-doctoral fellow) based at an Italian institution who is the first or senior author and presenter and who has the next highest-scoring eligible abstract submitted to the ASH annual meeting without regarding to scientific category. The recipient of this merit based award receives a $500 award.
Award Support
These annual awards are made possible by a grant from the Giuseppe Bigi Association, named for the late Giuseppe Bigi, MD, a well-known Italian scientist. Dr. Bigi served as associate professor of Clinical Immunology at the University of Milan from 1985 until his death in 2002 and was one of the first researchers to predict the presence of stem cells in the peripheral blood. Support for the 2015 award was also provided by the IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Foundation.

Eligibility

As with the other Abstract Achievement Awards, an individual is automatically considered for this award if one of the categories of eligibility boxes is checked in the area of the online abstract submission program regarding the "Abstract Achievement Award/Outstanding Abstract Achievement Award Applicants."