Congratulations to former transfusion medicine fellow, Eric Destrampe, and Pathology faculty, John Weiss, who along with their co-authors, were chosen to receive the Outstanding Abstract Award for Fellow/Post-doctoral Trainees at the 2019 American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) annual meeting in San Antonio. Their abstract, Investigation of Transfusion-Transmitted Powassan Virus Encephalitis in a Renal Transplant Recipient, was one of two abstracts chosen for this prestigious award which was presented on October 21 at the Oral Abstract Plenary Session.