Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute
Meet the Team

Meet the Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute Team

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Paul R. Andreassen, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Fanconi anemia; breast cancer susceptibility; genetic variants; genome instability; DNA damage responses; replication stress; relationship of DNA...
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Mohammad Azam, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Structure and function analysis of tyrosine kinases involved in the pathogenesis of leukemia; molecular basis of "oncogene addiction" modeling of...
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Elisa Boscolo, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Vascular anomalies; endothelial cell biology; mTOR signaling.
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Erin H. Breese, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Molecular pathogenesis of leukemia; novel therapeutics for childhood leukemia, especially for infants with MLL-rearranged leukemia
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Karen C. Burns, MD, MS

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Maria Carter Febres, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Hemophilia; rare bleeding disorders; girls and women with bleeding disorders; HHT
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Timothy M. Chlon, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Inherited susceptibility to myelodysplastic syndrome, myeloid leukemia, and bone marrow failure; ribosome biogenesis and snoRNA processing
A photo of Stella Davies.

Stella M. Davies, MBBS, PhD, MRCP

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Peter de Blank, MD, MSCE

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cancer imaging; diffusion tensor imaging; MR relaxometry; magnetic resonance fingerprinting; developmental therapeutics
Michael Deel

Michael D. Deel, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Investigating new therapeutic approaches for difficult to treat sarcomas and other solid tumors
Marie-Dominique Filippi

Marie-Dominique Filippi, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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James I. Geller, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Liver tumors; kidney tumors; retinoblastoma; new drug development; novel interventional therapeutics: intra-arterial chemotherapy, intra-arterial...
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Richard Graham, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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H. Leighton "Lee" Grimes, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Acute myelogenous leukemia; T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia; severe congenital neutropenia; hematopoiesis; myelopoiesis; lineage decision;...
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Michael S. Grimley, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Fukun Guo.

Fukun Guo, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Rho GTPases and T and B lymphocyte development and function
A photo of Trent Hummel.

Trent R. Hummel, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Michael B. Jordan, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Better understanding histiocytic disorders and developing novel therapies for them; regulation of the immune response; immunotherapy of cancer
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Theodosia A. Kalfa, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Signaling in erythrocytes; erythropoiesis; sickle cell disease; reactive oxygen species
A photo of Ashish Kumar.

Ashish R. Kumar, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Leukemia biology; cancer biology
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Adam Lane, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Clinical trials; survival analysis; structural equation modeling
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Eunsin Lee, PhD, DABR

Medical Physicist, Radiation Oncology
Qing Richard Lu, PhD

Qing Richard Lu, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Neoplastic stem cells; malignant glioma; pediatric brain tumors such as medulloblastoma, ependymoma, and diffuse midline gliomas (DMG / DIPG); tumor...
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Daniel Lucas, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Bone marrow; hematopoiesis; imaging; immunology
A photo of Lori Luchtman-Jones.

Lori Luchtman-Jones, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Thrombosis; stroke
A photo of Carolyn Lutzko.

Carolyn M. Lutzko, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Regulating human pluripotent stem cell; somatic cell reprogramming in iPSC; human embryonic stem cell physiology and differentiation; hESC; cystic...
A photo of Punam Malik.

Punam Malik, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Rebecca Marsh.

Rebecca A. Marsh, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Linde Miles

Linde A. Miles, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Acute myeloid leukemia; cancer biology; cancer evolution; single cell multi-omic technologies
Benjamin Mizukawa

Benjamin E. Mizukawa, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Eric Mullins, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Interaction of coagulation factors with immunity and inflammation; inflammatory diseases; multiple sclerosis; sickle cell disease; mouse models of...
A photo of James Mulloy.

James C. Mulloy, PhD

Co-Leader, Hematological Malignancy Program
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Kasiani C. Myers, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Md Nasimuzzaman, PhD

Instructor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia
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Nicolas Nassar, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Robin Norris, MD, MS, MPH

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Joseph Palumbo

Joseph S. Palumbo, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Defining the role of hemostatic system components in disease pathogenesis, particularly malignancy; examining novel approaches to limit the...
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Dao Pan, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Viral vector-mediated gene therapy; stem cell therapy; neurological lysosomal storage diseases; neuroinflammation, BBB remodeling and immunotherapy...
A photo of John Perentesis.

John P. Perentesis, MD, FAAP

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Molecular etiology and pharmacogenetics of pediatric cancers; Down syndrome-associated leukemia; new anticancer drug development
A photo of Lauren Pommert.

Lauren P. Pommert, MD, MS

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Novel therapeutics for relapsed and refractory acute myeloid leukemia; immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia; genetics of acute leukemia;...
Joseph Pressey

Joseph G. Pressey, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
The development of novel therapies for pediatric sarcomas and rare tumors.
A photo of Lisa M. Privette Vinnedge.

Lisa M. Privette Vinnedge, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Breast cancer; gene expression; metastasis; cell cycle; DEK; oncogenes and tumor suppressors
A photo of Charles Quinn.

Charles T. Quinn, MD, MS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Identifying the causes of the cardiomyopathy and nephropathy of sickle cell disease and identifying new treatments for these complications; direct...
A photo of Scott Raskin.

Scott I. Raskin, DO

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Immunotherapy; developmental therapeutics; clinical trials
A photo of Kimberly Risma.

Kimberly A. Risma, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Adverse drug reactions; mechanisms of immune dysregulation
A photo of William Seibel.

William L. Seibel, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Katie Seu.

Katie Seu, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Erythropoiesis; red cell biology; red cell membrane disorders.
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Lisa M. Shook, DHPE, MA, MCHES, CCP

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Daniel Starczynowski

Daniel T. Starczynowski, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Christina Tarango.

Cristina Tarango, MD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Pediatric bleeding disorders and thrombosis; quality improvement; medical education
A photo of Rachel Thienprayoon.

Rachel Thienprayoon, MD, MSCS

Associate Professor, UC Department of Anesthesia
A photo of Ronald Waclaw.

Ronald R. Waclaw, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Forebrain progenitor cell differentiation; “RASopathy” genes
A photo of Russell Ware.

Russell E. Ware, MD, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
A photo of Susanne Wells.

Susanne Wells, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Cancer susceptibility; development and progression; squamous cell carcinoma; proton therapy; pluripotent stem cells and organ regeneration
A photo of Jianqiang Wu.

Jianqiang Wu, MD, MS

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Preclinical therapeutic trial on neurofibroma; cancer stem cell(s) in neurofibroma
A photo of Mei Xin.

Mei Xin, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Regulation of organogenesis such as cardiovascular and heart growth and regeneration, and the nervous system development
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Yongbin Zhang

Sr. Medical Physicist, UC Health and Cincinnati Children's
Research Interests
Computational aspects of proton therapy (e.g. dose modeling and calculations, treatment planning and image-guided proton therapy); medical image...
Yi Zheng

Yi Zheng, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Using transgenic and gene targeted mouse models to study the physiological and pathological roles of Rho GTPases and their regulators in...
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