Meet the Team
Meet the Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology Team
Director
Research Interests
Using transgenic and gene targeted mouse models to study the physiological and pathological roles of Rho GTPases and their regulators in...
Faculty
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.
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
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
Courtney L. Jones, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Acute myeloid leukemia; leukemia stem cells; cancer metabolism
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Bone marrow; hematopoiesis; imaging; immunology
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Acute myeloid leukemia; cancer biology; cancer evolution; single cell multi-omic technologies
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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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Genetic mutations in tumor suppressor genes; development and tumorigenesis of the nervous system; peripheral NF1, NF2
J. Elliott Robinson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Neurofibromatosis type 1; systems neuroscience; gene therapy; electrophysiology
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Erythropoiesis; red cell biology; red cell membrane disorders.
Daniel T. Starczynowski, PhD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Benjamin Tourdot, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Epigenetics; chromatin assembly; Acute Myeloid Leukemia; down syndrome; genetic drivers of leukemia and bone marrow failure
Ronald R. Waclaw, PhD
Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Forebrain progenitor cell differentiation; “RASopathy” genes
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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
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