About Charles G. Mullighan
Dr. Charles G. Mullighan joined the Department of Pathology at St. Jude in 2008 and currently serves as the Deputy Director and co-leader of the Hematological Malignancies Program of the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Mullighan holds the William E. Evans Endowed Chair He is also Medical Director of the St. Jude Biorepository. He has received numerous honors including an NCI R35 Outstanding Investigator Award in 2017, the American Society of Hematology William Dameshek Prize, and the Meyenburg Prize for Cancer Research. and in 2016, the inaugural St. Baldrick’s Foundation Robert J. Arceci Innovation Award.
Meet the Team
Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD
Principal Investigator
- Member, St. Jude Faculty
- Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Co-Leader, Hematological Malignancies Program
- Medical Director, St. Jude Biorepository
- William E. Evans Endowed Chair
- Emily Backhaus
- Lead Researcher
- Prady Baviskar, PhD
- Senior Researcher
- Yunchao Chang, PhD
- Scientist
- Qingsong Gao, PhD
- Bioinformatics Research Scientist
- Pankaj Ghate, PhD
- Lead Researcher
- Ilaria Iacobucci, PhD
- Senior Scientist
- Shunsuke Kimura, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Nichole Michmerhuizen, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Lindsey Montefiori, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Chun Shik Park, PhD
- Scientist
- Petri Polonen, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Ruth Wang'ondu
- Instructor, St. Jude Faculty
- Yaqi Zhao
- Scientist