NEW YORK, NEW YORK – June 8, 2023 – Deerfield Management and the Deerfield Foundation announced today the creation of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Peter Steelman Scholar Award and the first Annual AML Summit in honor of former, longtime Deerfield Partner Peter Steelman. Both efforts aim to further advance research for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
The 2022 inaugural recipient of the ASH Peter Steelman Scholar Award is Simone Riedel, Ph.D. who will be a keynote speaker at the AML Summit. Dr. Riedel currently serves as a doctoral fellow at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Bernt Lab, as part of a team of researchers focused on investigating the role of epigenetic gene regulation in hematopoietic stem cells and their relation to leukemia. More specifically, Dr. Riedel works on a protein called Meningioma-1 (MN1) that, when overexpressed, causes a highly aggressive AML.
The first annual AML Summit will be held on Tuesday, June 13 at Cure®, a healthcare innovation campus in New York City.
Guest speakers at the inaugural AML Summit will include:
- Omar Abdel-Wahab, M.D., Director of the Center for Hematologic Malignancies at Memorial Sloan Kettering;
- Lore Gruenbaum, Ph.D. | Vice President, Therapy Acceleration Program;
- Ross Levine, M.D., Leukemia Specialist & Physician-Scientist, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Chair of The AML Summit;
- Alicia Loffler, former Executive Director of the Innovation and New Ventures Office at Northwest