[From Left to Right:] IMF Founder, President, and CEO Susie Durie; myeloma survivor and facilitator of the Philadelphia Multiple Myeloma Networking Group Cindy Chmielewski; esteemed myeloma researcher Dr. Robert A. Kyle; and Brian D. Novis Senior Grant Award recipient Nicola Giuliani, MD, PhD.
![[From Left to Right:] IMF Founder, President, and CEO Susie Durie; myeloma survivor and facilitator of the Philadelphia Multiple Myeloma Networking Group Cindy Chmielewski; esteemed myeloma researcher Dr. Robert A. Kyle; and Brian D. Novis Senior Grant Award recipient Nicola Giuliani, MD, PhD.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Public/IMF-at-ASH17/i-fdFkDGf/0/3340ce2f/L/BDN2017Awards_ASH177-L.jpg)
![IMF Staffers [From Left to Right:] Brando Sordoni, Amirah Limayo, and Miko Santos greeted all those who stopped by the IMF Booth at ASH.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Public/IMF-at-ASH17/i-7p9RhtS/0/63f00b8d/Ti/23_ASHBOOTH6-Ti.jpg)
![The IMF awarded its 2018 Brian D. Novis Research Grants in a ceremony on Saturday, December 9, 2017. [From Left to Right:] Esteemed myeloma researcher Robert A. Kyle, MD; Brian D. Novis Senior Grant Award recipient Sophia Adamia, PhD; Sheree Pask and Ron Pask (whose Miracles for Myeloma 5K helped raised money for the research grant); and IMF Founder, President, and CEO Susie Durie.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Public/IMF-at-ASH17/i-zfWrCxs/0/dfcc6192/Ti/BDN2017Awards_ASH175-Ti.jpg)
![[From Left to Right:] IMF Founder, President, and CEO Susie Durie; myeloma survivor and facilitator of the Philadelphia Multiple Myeloma Networking Group Cindy Chmielewski; esteemed myeloma researcher Dr. Robert A. Kyle; and Brian D. Novis Senior Grant Award recipient Nicola Giuliani, MD, PhD.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Public/IMF-at-ASH17/i-fdFkDGf/0/3340ce2f/Ti/BDN2017Awards_ASH177-Ti.jpg)
![[From Left to Right:] IMF Founder, President & CEO Susie Durie, esteemed myeloma researcher Robert A. Kyle, myeloma patient and IMF volunteer fundraiser Kent Oliver, wife Candace Oliver with daughters Annie and Charlotte. Kent’s “Laughs 4 Life” event supported a research award for the work of Eline Menu, PhD. Accepting on behalf of Dr. Menu was Dr. Vanderkirken.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Public/IMF-at-ASH17/i-cnzzWq2/0/a0c0f8c0/Ti/BDN2017Awards_ASH178-Ti.jpg)
