AABB Foundation Announces 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee

The AABB Foundation is pleased to name Moritz Stolla, MD, PhD, as the newest inductee into the AABB Foundation Hall of Fame.

The AABB Foundation Hall of Fame recognizes a prestigious and select group of AABB Foundation grant recipients who leveraged their early-career grant funding into successful careers in transfusion medicine or biotherapies and who demonstrated exemplary leadership within the field.

Stolla serves as an associate member at Bloodworks Northwest Research Institute and the director of the transfusion research program at Bloodworks. In addition to his research interests, he is a practicing transfusion medicine physician and CLIA and medical director for clinical laboratories. He holds academic appointments in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and the Clinical Research Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.

AABB will feature a profile of Stolla in the September issue of AABB News.

“On behalf of the AABB Foundation, I extend heartfelt congratulations to this year’s Hall of Fame inductee,” said AABB Foundation president Richard Schäfer. “Dr. Stolla exemplifies the spirit of innovation and dedication that our recognition programs are designed to celebrate. His impactful work—made possible in part by early-stage AABB Foundation grants—continues to shape the future of blood and biotherapies. We are deeply grateful to our funding partners and the generous AABB members whose continuous support fuels our mission to promote groundbreaking research. Together, we are empowering the next generation of scientific leaders. Thank you for being part of this journey.”

With generous financial contributions from individuals and institutional partners, the AABB Foundation can provide research grants that lead to professional recognition opportunities like the Hall of Fame. The institutions recognized among AABB Foundation’s funding partners include the American Red Cross, Blood Centers of America, Canadian Blood Services, Coastal Blood Foundation, Fresenius Kabi, New York Blood Center, QuidelOrtho, Roche, Santa Barbara Foundation (Tri-Counties Blood Bank Fund), Terumo Blood & Cell Technologies, Topeka Community Foundation (Kansas Blood Service Fund) and Vitalant.

To date, the AABB Foundation has given more than $12 million in grants to support the research of more than 200 scientists, many of whom have gone on to become expert leaders in the blood and biotherapies field. For more information about the AABB Foundation and grant funding opportunities, visit aabb.org/foundation.