PHILADELPHIA – The American Society of Hematology (ASH) has awarded Nancy Speck, PhD, a professor of Cell and Developmental Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the 2015 Henry M. Stratton Medal for Basic Science for her “seminal contributions in the area of hematology research.”

Speck is also associate director of Penn’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and co-leads the Hematologic Malignancies Program at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center and is an investigator at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute.

“I’m very grateful to ASH for bestowing this huge honor on me,” Speck said. “However this recognition also belongs to all of the wonderful students and postdocs I’ve had the privilege to work with during my career.”

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