Dr Prateek Bhatia, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, PGIMER, Chandigarh had been awarded the Young Scientist Travel award of 100,000 Yen by the Japanese Society of Hematology and had been invited to attend their 74th Annual Meeting to be held at Kyoto, Japan in October. He has left for Kyoto to give an oral presentation on his research paper entitled ‘Clinical Hematological, Molecular and follow-up profile of BCR-ABL positive Acute Leukemia’. He was selected for the award on the basis of his recent publications and research in field of acute leukemias. The research to be presented is part of the study that was carried out jointly by the Departments of Pediatrics, Hematology and Internal Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh.