Our sight was caught by the subject line of an email we received on March 12, 2016: “American Society of Hematology (ASH) Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize.” It came from Charles Abrams, President of the ASH Society, congratulating Zhu Chen for being the recipient of the 2016 Ernest Beutler Lecture and Prize together with our close collaborator Hugues de Thé for their contributions to finding a cure for acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). More than a decade ago, Beutler, ex-president of ASH and a respectable pioneer in hematology, had visited our institute and was very encouraging and supportive of our work.