Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute
Meet the Team

Meet the Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute Team

Paul R. Andreassen, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Fanconi anemia; breast cancer susceptibility; genetic variants; genome instability; DNA damage responses; replication stress; relationship of DNA...

Mohammad Azam, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Structure and function analysis of tyrosine kinases involved in the pathogenesis of leukemia; molecular basis of "oncogene addiction" modeling of...

Elisa Boscolo, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
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

Karen C. Burns, MD, MS

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

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
Research Interests
Inherited susceptibility to myelodysplastic syndrome, myeloid leukemia, and bone marrow failure; ribosome biogenesis and snoRNA processing

Peter de Blank, MD, MSCE

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cancer imaging; diffusion tensor imaging; MR relaxometry; magnetic resonance fingerprinting; developmental therapeutics

Michael D. Deel, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Investigating new therapeutic approaches for difficult to treat sarcomas and other solid tumors

James I. Geller, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Liver tumors; kidney tumors; retinoblastoma; new drug development; novel interventional therapeutics: intra-arterial chemotherapy, intra-arterial...

Richard Graham, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

H. Leighton "Lee" Grimes, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Acute myelogenous leukemia; T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia; severe congenital neutropenia; hematopoiesis; myelopoiesis; lineage decision;...

Michael S. Grimley, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Fukun Guo, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Rho GTPases and T and B lymphocyte development and function

Trent R. Hummel, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Michael B. Jordan, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Better understanding histiocytic disorders and developing novel therapies for them; regulation of the immune response; immunotherapy of cancer
Research Interests
Signaling in erythrocytes; erythropoiesis; sickle cell disease; reactive oxygen species

Ashish R. Kumar, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Leukemia biology; cancer biology

Adam Lane, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical trials; survival analysis; structural equation modeling

Eunsin Lee, PhD, DABR

Medical Physicist, Radiation Oncology

Qing Richard Lu, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neoplastic stem cells; malignant glioma; pediatric brain tumors such as medulloblastoma, ependymoma, and diffuse midline gliomas (DMG / DIPG); tumor...

Daniel Lucas, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Bone marrow; hematopoiesis; imaging; immunology
Research Interests
Thrombosis; stroke

Carolyn M. Lutzko, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Regulating human pluripotent stem cell; somatic cell reprogramming in iPSC; human embryonic stem cell physiology and differentiation; hESC; cystic...

Punam Malik, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Rebecca A. Marsh, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Linde A. Miles, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
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...

Kasiani C. Myers, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Md Nasimuzzaman, PhD

Instructor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia

Nicolas Nassar, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Robin Norris, MD, MS, MPH

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Joseph S. Palumbo, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Defining the role of hemostatic system components in disease pathogenesis, particularly malignancy; examining novel approaches to limit the...

Dao Pan, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Viral vector-mediated gene therapy; stem cell therapy; neurological lysosomal storage diseases; neuroinflammation, BBB remodeling and immunotherapy...
Research Interests
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;...

Joseph G. Pressey, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
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

Charles T. Quinn, MD, MS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Identifying the causes of the cardiomyopathy and nephropathy of sickle cell disease and identifying new treatments for these complications; direct...

Scott I. Raskin, DO

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Immunotherapy; developmental therapeutics; clinical trials
Research Interests
Adverse drug reactions; mechanisms of immune dysregulation

William L. Seibel, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Katie Seu, PhD

Assistant 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

Cristina Tarango, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Pediatric bleeding disorders and thrombosis; quality improvement; medical education

Ronald R. Waclaw, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Forebrain progenitor cell differentiation; “RASopathy” genes

Susanne Wells, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cancer susceptibility; development and progression; squamous cell carcinoma; proton therapy; pluripotent stem cells and organ regeneration

Jianqiang Wu, MD, MS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Preclinical therapeutic trial on neurofibroma; cancer stem cell(s) in neurofibroma

Mei Xin, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
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...

Yi Zheng, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Using transgenic and gene targeted mouse models to study the physiological and pathological roles of Rho GTPases and their regulators in...