Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology
Meet the Team

Meet the Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology Team

Director

A photo of Yi Zheng.

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...

Faculty

A photo of Paul Andreassen.

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...
A photo of Mohammed Azam.

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...
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Elisa Boscolo, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Vascular anomalies; endothelial cell biology; mTOR signaling.
A photo of Jose Cancelas Perez.

Jose A. Cancelas Perez, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Timothy Chlon.

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
A photo of Marie-Dominique Filippi.

Marie-Dominique Filippi, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Lee Grimes.

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;...
A photo of Fukun Guo.

Fukun Guo, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Rho GTPases and T and B lymphocyte development and function
A photo of Courtney Jones.

Courtney L. Jones, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Acute myeloid leukemia; leukemia stem cells; cancer metabolism
A photo of Theodosia A. Kalfa.

Theodosia A. Kalfa, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Signaling in erythrocytes; erythropoiesis; sickle cell disease; reactive oxygen species
A photo of Ashish Kumar.

Ashish R. Kumar, MD, PhD

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

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical trials; survival analysis; structural equation modeling
A photo of Qing Richard Lu.

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...
A photo of Carolyn Lutzko.

Carolyn M. Lutzko, PhD

Associate 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...
A photo of Punam Malik.

Punam Malik, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Linde Miles.

Linde A. Miles, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Acute myeloid leukemia; cancer biology; cancer evolution; single cell multi-omic technologies
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Benjamin E. Mizukawa, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of James Mulloy.

James C. Mulloy, PhD

Co-Leader, Hematological Malignancy Program
A photo of Nicolas Nassar.

Nicolas Nassar, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Dao Pan.

Dao Pan, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Damien Reynaud.

Damien Reynaud, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Elliott Robinson.

J. Elliott Robinson, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neurofibromatosis type 1; systems neuroscience; gene therapy; electrophysiology
A photo of Katie Seu.

Katie Seu, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Erythropoiesis; red cell biology; red cell membrane disorders.
A photo of Daniel Starczynowski.

Daniel T. Starczynowski, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Benjamin Tourdot, PhD.

Benjamin Tourdot, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Andrew Volk.

Andrew Volk, 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
A photo of Ronald Waclaw.

Ronald R. Waclaw, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Forebrain progenitor cell differentiation; “RASopathy” genes
A photo of Jianqiang Wu.

Jianqiang Wu, MD, MS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Preclinical therapeutic trial on neurofibroma; cancer stem cell(s) in neurofibroma
A photo of Lai Man Natalie Wu.

Lai Man Natalie Wu, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Molecular basis of neuroblastoma; neural crest-derived cancers; Schwann cell development and tumorigenesis
A photo of Mei Xin.

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
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