Yale Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Bria Carrithers, MD, MSc, Alexandra Boye-Doe, MD, and Cristian Taborda, MD, have been selected by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) to receive 2025 Hematology Inclusion Pathway (HIP) Fellow Awards. This award strives to ensure that early-career researchers in hematology reflect and serve the greater population.
About the Hematology Inclusion Pathway (HIP) Fellow Awards
The HIP Fellow Award, part of the Hematology Inclusion Pathway, supports first and second year early-career researchers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico to pursue a career in academic hematology. The award includes funding for research projects focused on blood science and offers recipients the opportunity to present their findings at the ASH Annual Meeting being held in December.
About the Winners
Drs. Carrithers and Boye-Doe are both first-year clinical fellows in the ASH Hematology-Focused Fellowship Training Program (HFFTP) at Yale. Dr. Carrithers’ research is focused on evaluating the use of prophylactic exchange transfusions in pregnant patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and its impact on identifying risk factors that lead to SCD and obstetrical complications in this vulnerable population. Her co-mentors are Layla Van Doren, MD, MBA, an assistant professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology) at Yale, and Julie Kanter, MD of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Boye-Doe is looking to understand the molecular mechanisms of von Willebrand factor trafficking and release, with particular emphasis on the role of small GTPases and protein tethering complexes in regulation of this process within endothelial cells. She is mentored by Anish Sharda, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology). Dr. Taborda is a second-year fellow with the Yale Medical Oncology-Hematology Fellowship, and his project focuses on outcomes for older adults with Philadelphia Chromosome-negative Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) in the era of novel therapies. His mentor is Nikolia Podoltsev, MD, PhD, associate professor of internal medicine (hematology and medical oncology).
These outstanding fellows demonstrate excellence in research and dedication to advancing the field of hematology that the HIP Fellow Award seeks to recognize and support.