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Lillian Macrae Guenther, MD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

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Lillian Macrae Guenther, MD

Molecular Oncology

MS 353, Room D5062D

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

MemphisTN 38105-3678

Education

BA (History) – Brown University, Providence, RI MD – SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY Internship and Residency (General Pediatrics) - Boston Combined Residency Program (Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center), Boston, MA Clinical/Postdoctoral Fellowship  (Pediatric Hematology/Oncology) - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Honors & Awards

  • 2022 Children’s Cancer Research Fund Emerging Scientist Award
  • 2022 SARC Career Development Award
  • 2019 Rally Foundation Independent Investigator Award
  • 2018 – 2022 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Physician-Scientist Training Award
  • 2018 – 2020 Boston Children’s Hospital Office of Faculty Development Career Development Award
  • 2018 – 2019 QuadW Foundation/AACR Fellowship for Clinical/Translational Sarcoma Research
  • 2018 Scholar-in-Training Award, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting
  • 2017 – 2022 NIH/NCI Pediatric Research Loan Repayment Program
  • 2008 – 2009 Howard Hughes Medical Institute/National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Scholar

Research Interests

  • Biologic investigation of novel dependency genes in pediatric osteosarcoma
  • DNA damage repair mechanisms in pediatric osteosarcoma
  • Development of novel therapeutic strategies for pediatric bone sarcomas
  • Applications of genomic and chemical screening to identify targeted combinations in pediatric bone sarcomas

Dr. Guenther in Progress

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