ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Christopher S. Hourigan, DM, DPhil, FACP, FRCP, is Chief of the Laboratory of Myeloid Malignancies in the Hematology Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He trained at Oxford and then Johns Hopkins and was recruited to the NIH to develop a new program in Myeloid Malignancies. The central focus of his laboratory is the “detection of measurable residual disease in acute myeloid leukemia”. He is also a practicing acute leukemia physician and continues to see patients as a part-time Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Hourigan is a member of the ELN International Consensus Committee on Measurable Residual Disease in Acute Myeloid Leukemia, the NCI Myeloid Malignancies Precision Medicine Initiative, the ASH Clinical Guideline Panel on AML in Older Adults, is Scientific Co-Director of the new trans-NIH Myeloid Malignancies program and is Co-Chair of the Acute Leukemia Working Committee of the CIBMTR. He is married, with two sons.