
SOHO President Dr. John F. DiPersio honored with top AACR award
The award recognizes an individual’s achievements and contributions in any aspect of blood cancer research.
The Society of Hematologic Oncology (SOHO) was established as a non-profit corporation in 2012 with aims to promote worldwide research, education, prevention, clinical studies and optimal patient care in all aspects of hematologic malignancies and related disorders.

The award recognizes an individual’s achievements and contributions in any aspect of blood cancer research.

SOHO will hold an exclusive session titled, “Practical Strategies for Optimizing Outcomes in MDS and AML,” starting at 3 pm on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, ahead of the SOHO 2026 Annual Meeting. The session will be chaired by Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Iftikhar is the SOHO Ambassador to Pakistan and a consultant clinical hematologist and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation physician at Armed Forces Bone Marrow Transplant Centre in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

The researchers added that early indications from their translational substudies suggest that PET radiomics and immune gene analyses provide promise as biomarkers for response in immunotherapy combinations.

In this video interview from SOHO Asia 2026, Dr. Feng-Ming Tien discusses the critical link between the immune microenvironment and therapeutic success in MDS and AML.
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