ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
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
R. Grant Rowe, MD, PhD, focuses his research on the intersection of normal development and disease. He completed his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Michigan, focused on matrix biology in the laboratory of Dr. Stephen J. Weiss. After moving to Boston Children’s Hospital to further his medical training in a three-year categorical Pediatrics residency, he joined the laboratory of Dr. George Q. Daley, where his work focused hematopoietic development and modeling of blood diseases. Dr. Rowe continued this work in Dr. Daley’s laboratory as his postdoctoral research as a Clinical Fellow and Instructor in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology. In his independent research group, Dr. Rowe is leveraging his longstanding interest in developmental biology to study how the hematopoietic system and hematopoietic stem cells change over time during development and aging, which he believes provides opportunities to improve understanding and modeling of hematologic disorders, particularly those blood disorders biased toward onset in infancy and childhood. Dr. Rowe's current efforts aim to translate lessons from normal development to build new models of human blood diseases with focus on the stem cell biology of normal and diseased hematopoiesis, particularly bone marrow failure (BMF) disorders and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). His lab focuses on developmental differences in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and disease models positions us to apply these normal developmental paradigms to blood diseases that he sees in his clinical activities as a physician caring for pediatric BMF and hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients.