Meet the Team
Meet the Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute Team
Research Interests
Fanconi anemia; breast cancer susceptibility; genetic variants; genome instability; DNA damage responses; replication stress; relationship of DNA...
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Structure and function analysis of tyrosine kinases involved in the pathogenesis of leukemia; molecular basis of "oncogene addiction" modeling of...
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Vascular anomalies; endothelial cell biology; mTOR signaling.
Erin H. Breese, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Molecular pathogenesis of leukemia; novel therapeutics for childhood leukemia, especially for infants with MLL-rearranged leukemia
Maria Carter Febres, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Hemophilia; rare bleeding disorders; girls and women with bleeding disorders; HHT
Timothy M. Chlon, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Inherited susceptibility to myelodysplastic syndrome, myeloid leukemia, and bone marrow failure; ribosome biogenesis and snoRNA processing
Stella M. Davies, MBBS, PhD, MRCP
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Cancer imaging; diffusion tensor imaging; MR relaxometry; magnetic resonance fingerprinting; developmental therapeutics
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Investigating new therapeutic approaches for difficult to treat sarcomas and other solid tumors
Marie-Dominique Filippi, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Acute myelogenous leukemia; T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia; severe congenital neutropenia; hematopoiesis; myelopoiesis; lineage decision;...
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Rho GTPases and T and B lymphocyte development and function
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Better understanding histiocytic disorders and developing novel therapies for them; regulation of the immune response; immunotherapy of cancer
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Signaling in erythrocytes; erythropoiesis; sickle cell disease; reactive oxygen species
Jennifer Kamens, MD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Translational research in high risk leukemias with a specific focus on understanding DNA damage repair mechanisms in pediatric AML and the use of...
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Leukemia biology; cancer biology
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Clinical trials; survival analysis; structural equation modeling
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Neoplastic stem cells; malignant glioma; pediatric brain tumors such as medulloblastoma, ependymoma, and diffuse midline gliomas (DMG / DIPG); tumor...
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Bone marrow; hematopoiesis; imaging; immunology
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Thrombosis; stroke
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Acute myeloid leukemia; cancer biology; cancer evolution; single cell multi-omic technologies
Benjamin E. Mizukawa, MD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Eric Mullins, MD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Interaction of coagulation factors with immunity and inflammation; inflammatory diseases; multiple sclerosis; sickle cell disease; mouse models of...
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Sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia
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Defining the role of hemostatic system components in disease pathogenesis, particularly malignancy; examining novel approaches to limit the...
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Viral vector-mediated gene therapy; stem cell therapy; neurological lysosomal storage diseases; neuroinflammation, BBB remodeling and immunotherapy...
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Molecular etiology and pharmacogenetics of pediatric cancers; Down syndrome-associated leukemia; new anticancer drug development
Lauren P. Pommert, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Novel therapeutics for relapsed and refractory acute myeloid leukemia; immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia; genetics of acute leukemia;...
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The development of novel therapies for pediatric sarcomas and rare tumors.
Lisa M. Privette Vinnedge, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Breast cancer; gene expression; metastasis; cell cycle; DEK; oncogenes and tumor suppressors
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Identifying the causes of the cardiomyopathy and nephropathy of sickle cell disease and identifying new treatments for these complications; direct...
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Immunotherapy; developmental therapeutics; clinical trials
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Adverse drug reactions; mechanisms of immune dysregulation
William L. Seibel, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Erythropoiesis; red cell biology; red cell membrane disorders.
Lisa M. Shook, DHPE, MA, MCHES, CCP
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Daniel T. Starczynowski, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Richard Suarez, MD
Clinical Fellow, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institution
Research Interests
Pediatric bleeding disorders and thrombosis; quality improvement; medical education
Rachel Thienprayoon, MD, MSCS
Associate Professor, UC Department of Anesthesia
Ronald R. Waclaw, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Forebrain progenitor cell differentiation; “RASopathy” genes
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Cancer susceptibility; development and progression; squamous cell carcinoma; proton therapy; pluripotent stem cells and organ regeneration
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Preclinical therapeutic trial on neurofibroma; cancer stem cell(s) in neurofibroma
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Regulation of organogenesis such as cardiovascular and heart growth and regeneration, and the nervous system development
Yongbin Zhang
Sr. Medical Physicist, UC Health and Cincinnati Children's
Research Interests
Computational aspects of proton therapy (e.g. dose modeling and calculations, treatment planning and image-guided proton therapy); medical image...
Research Interests
Using transgenic and gene targeted mouse models to study the physiological and pathological roles of Rho GTPases and their regulators in...
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