AABB Foundation Announces 2024 Hall of Fame Inductees and Award for Innovative Research Recipient

The AABB Foundation is pleased to name the newest inductees into the AABB Foundation Hall of Fame and the recipient of the AABB Foundation Award for Innovative Research.

Hall of Fame: Chance John Luckey and Jo-Anna Reems

The AABB Foundation Hall of Fame recognizes a prestigious and select group of AABB Foundation grant recipients who leveraged their early-career grant funding into successful careers in transfusion medicine or biotherapies and who demonstrated exemplary leadership within the field.

Inductee Chance John Luckey, MD, PhD, serves as an associate professor of pathology and medical director of cell therapy collections and processing at University of Virginia School of Medicine. Inductee Jo-Anna Reems, PhD, MT(ASCP)SBB, who is now retired, served as professor of medicine and scientific director of cell therapy and regenerative medicine at University of Utah.

Award for Innovative Research: Vijay Bhoj

The AABB Foundation Award for Innovative Research recognizes a scientist whose original research resulted in an important contribution to the body of scientific knowledge in transfusion medicine or biotherapies. Recipient Vijay Bhoj, MD, PhD, serves as assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and was selected for his AABB Foundation-funded research project, “Dissecting the Humoral Response to FVIII for Therapeutic Applications.” 

“The AABB Foundation has the great pleasure of congratulating each of these deserving honorees on their achievement,” said AABB Foundation President Jose Cancelas, MD, PhD, CABP.  “Our recognition programs acknowledge prior AABB Foundation grant recipients whose work has had an impact on the field. We thank our funding partners and all the AABB individual members whose generosity is supporting the AABB Foundation research promotion mission. Together, we’re able to provide early-stage funding to innovative scientists who go on to become leaders in blood and biotherapies. Thank you!”

The institutions recognized among AABB Foundation’s funding partners include the American Red Cross, Beckman Coulter, Blood Centers of America, Canadian Blood Services, Coastal Blood Foundation, Fresenius Kabi, Grifols, New York Blood Center, QuidelOrtho, Roche, Santa Barbara Foundation (Tri-Counties Blood Bank Fund), Topeka Community Foundation (Kansas Blood Service Fund), Vitalant and Richard H. Yearick Foundation.

To date, the AABB Foundation has awarded more than $12 million in grants to fund the research work of more than 200 scientists. For more information about the AABB Foundation and grant funding opportunities, visit aabb.org/foundation.