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Dirk Loeffler, PhD

Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty

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Dirk Loeffler, PhD

Hematology

MS 341, Room D3055E

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis,  TN 38105-3678

(901) 632-9017(phone)

Affiliations

Department of Hematology

Comprehensive Cancer Center

Education

BSc - Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Undergraduate Research (Hematology/Oncology) – University Hospital Frankfurt, Germany MSc (Biology) – Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany PhD (Stem Cell Biology) – LMU Munich, Germany Graduate Research - Helmholtz Center & Ludwig-Maximillian-University, Munich, Germany Postdoctoral Research – ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Honors & Awards

  • 2020 George Brecher Award, International Society of Exp. Hematology (ISEH)
  • 2020 Bruno Speck Award, Basel Stem Cell Network
  • 2009 Diploma/M.Sc. with honors, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Research Interests

  • Molecular mechanisms of blood stem cell self-renewal & differentiation
  • Cancer stem cells & clonal hematopoiesis
  • Quantitative single-cell time-lapse imaging
  • Asymmetric cell division
  • Cellular memory
  • Aging

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