ASH Clinical News April 2016 | Page 30

Data Stream Blood on the Album Tracks No Money, Mo’ Problems Thanks to some creative password-guessing, we got a peek into the ASH Executive Committee’s Pandora playlists. With increasing competition for dwindling federal research dollars, investigators are feeling the squeeze. To help fill in the funding gap, creative scientists are turning to some unlikely sources. Here’s how researchers raised cash in the last year: What we found probably won’t surprise you. 533,000 $ “Sunday Bloody Sunday” by U2 from crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe and Kickstarter 89,000 “Hot-Blooded” by Foreigner $ “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” by Red Hot Chili Peppers “Raining Blood” by Slayer from Hem-Onc Scout cookie sales (the Blood Thinner Mints and Plasma Butter Patties were best-sellers!) “First Blood” by AC/DC 6,800 $ “Blood on Blood” by Bon Jovi from renting out empty hospital rooms on Airbnb “Blood Brothers” by Bruce Springsteen and the E 2,440 $ Street Band “Power in the Blood” by Dolly Parton from saving laundry and food costs by moving back in with parents “Bleeding Love” by Leona Lewis 14 $ “A Rush of Blood to the Head” by Coldplay from selling a copy of ASH SAP (Fourth Edition) on eBay – “Let it Bleed” by the Rolling Stones signed by the Editor Keith McCrae, MD! “Bad Blood” by Taylor Swift 3 1 1 4 1 1 10 1 3 1 3 Words with Friends Want to dominate the competition in a friendly game of Scrabble? Keep these high-scoring words in your back pocket: 28 ASH Clinical News Doxorubicin: 23 points Dexamethasone: 26 points Macroglobulinemia: 26 points Obinutuzumab: 27 points Hematopathologist: 28 points Carfilzomib: 29 points April 2016