About Esther Obeng
Dr. Obeng received her MD and PhD from the University of Miami and completed her residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics. She pursued fellowship training in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. She leverages expertise in RNA splicing factor mutations and MDS pathogenesis to lead a robust research program as a faculty member in the Department of Oncology at St. Jude. She is also cares for patients as an attending physician in the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. Dr. Obeng is committed to translational discovery, and mentors a global team of young investigators.
Meet the Team
Esther Obeng, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
- Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
- Ana Leal Cervantes, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Mark Engelken
- Researcher
- John Harper
- Sr Research Services Technologist
- Elodie Henriet, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
- Jacquelyn Myers
- Lead Bioinformatics Analyst
- Jordan Skorupa
- Researcher
- LaShanale Wallace, PhD
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
Lab Alumni
Aparna Calindi, BS
- Role: Research Technician
- Tenure: June 2020 – May 2021
- Post-lab experience: Graduate Student, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Koral Campbell, BS
- Role: Research Technician
- Tenure: September 2019 – May 2021
- Post-lab experience: Graduate Student, Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Ana Leal Cervantes, PhD
- Role: Postdoctoral Fellow
- Tenure: October 2018 – August 2022
- Post-lab experience: Lecturer, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA
John (Jack) Figg, BS
- Role: Research Technician
- Tenure: May 2019 – June 2020
- Post-lab experience: MD-PhD Student, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
Henry Fields, BS
- Role: Research Technician
- Tenure: June 2021 – May 2022
Patricia Lipson, BS
- Role: Research Technician
- Tenure: June 2018 – June 2019
- Post-lab experience: Medical Student, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Reid Palumbo, BS
- Role: Pediatric Oncology Education (POE) Student
- Tenure: May 2018 – July 2018; May 2019 – July 2019
- Post-lab experience: Medical Student, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH
Zhaohan Zhu
- Role: Pediatric Oncology Education (POE) Student
- Tenure: May 2022 – July 2022
- Post-lab experience: Bachelor of Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN