Hematological Malignancies Program Members
Doralina Anghelescu, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
Research interests: pain management, anesthesia risks, palliative care
Sharyn Baker, PharmD, PhD
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research interests: clinical pharmacology of tyrosine kinase inhibitors
Cheng Cheng, PhD
Department of Biostatistics
Research interests: statistical methods in cancer genomics and genetics
John K. Choi, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology
Research interests: to understand the mechanisms by which the transcription factor E2A regulate normal and leukemic precursor B cell proliferations
Mari H. Dallas, MD
Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy
Stem cell and T-cell development; cord blood transplant; infections and immune reconstitution after bone marrow transplant
James Downing, MD
St. Jude Deputy Director and Scientific Director, Department of Pathology
Research interests: the molecular pathology of acute leukemia
William Evans, PharmD
St. Jude Director, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research interests: pharmacogenomics of antileukemic agents in children
Tanja Gruber, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: molecular pathology of infantile leukemia
Scott Howard, MD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: leukemia and lymphoma, international outreach
Hiroto Inaba, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology
Research Interests: novel therapies for leukemia/lymphoma, especially acute myeloid leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma
Sima Jeha, MD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: childhood leukemias, developmental therapeutics
Mondira Kundu, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology
Research Interests: Mechanisms involved in mitochondrial clearance and links to hematopoietic malignancies
Joseph H. Laver, MD
Department of Pediatric Medicine
Research interests: pediatric stem cell transplantation; pediatric non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Wing-Hang Leung, MD, PhD
Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy
Research interests: NK cell and stem cell transplantation, late effects
Monika Metzger, MD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas, leukemias, IOP
Charles Mullighan, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology
Research interests: genomic profiling of acute leukemia
Stanley Pounds, PhD
Department of Biostatistics
Research interests: develop statistical methods for genomics studies
Ching-Hon Pui, MD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: biology and treatment of childhood leukemia
Mary Relling, PharmD
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research interests: pharmacokinetics and genetics of leukemia therapy
Raul Ribeiro, MD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: international outreach, hematological malignancies
Jeffrey Rubnitz, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: treatment of acute myeloid leukemia
John Sandlund, MD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: clinical and biologic investigation of NHL and ALL
Erin Schuetz, PhD
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research interests: mechanisms of human variation in drug response
John Schuetz, PhD
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research interests: regulation and function of ABC transporters
Ashok Srinivasan, MD
Department of Bone Marrow Transplant & Cellular Therapy
Research interest: Infections in the immune-compromised host
Brandon Triplett, MD
Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy
Research interests: Hematopoietic cell transplant for high risk leukemia; Use of alternative donors in patients lacking a fully matched sibling donor; Immune reconstitution following hematopoietic cell transplant
Jun J. Yang, PhD
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research interests: the genomics of hematologic tumors, with particular interests in genomic characterization of inter-patient variability in anti-leukemia drug response and disease susceptibility