Current Fellows' Research & Clinical Interests
(Preceptor and Preceptor’s Department or Division)
- Oyebimpe Adesina, MD (Jason Gotlib, Stan Schrier, Hematology)
Long term sequelae of Sickle Cell disorder and mitigating factors in affected adults
- Anosheh Afghahi, MD (Melinda Telli, Oncology)
DNA repair targeted strategies in triple-negative and hereditary breast cancer - Alexey Aleshin, MD, MBA
Clinical fellow with July 2015 start; will begin research in January 2017
- Jennifer Caswell-Jin, MD
Clinical fellow; will begin research in July 2015
- Mark P. Chao, MD, PhD (Irving Weissman, Pathology; Ravi Majeti, Hematology)
Modeling hematologic malignancies through induced pluripotent stem cells - Viola Chen, MD
Clinical fellow with July 2015 start; will begin research in January 2017
- Jody Chuang, MD, PhD (Joel Neal, Heather Wakelee, Oncology)
Clinical trials and other studies in thoracic oncology
- Brian Dietrich, MD
Clinical fellow with July 2015 start; will begin research in January 2017 - Joshua Gruber, MD, PhD (James Ford, Oncology and Michael Snyder, Genetics)
Measuring somatic mutation rate in patients at high risk for malignancy
- Robert W. Hsieh, MD, PhD (Michael Clarke, Oncology)
RNAi screening in primary human breast cancer cells to identify regulators of oncogenic growth
- David Iberri, MD
Clinical fellow; Hematology Clinic and Med 9 - Tyler P. Johnson, MD, PhD
Clinical fellow - Adel Kardosh, MD, PhD
Clinical fellow; will begin research in January 2016 - Gregory Kaufman, MD
Clinical fellow with July 2015 start; will begin research in January 2017
- David Matthew Kurtz, MD (Ash Alizadeh, Oncology; Sanjiv Gambhir, Radiology)
ARTS (Advanced Residency Training Program) Bioengineering PhD Program - Monitoring therapeutic responses in lymphoma - Ryan Lynch, MD
Clinical fellow; will begin research in January 2016 - Michael Mancuso, MD, PhD
Clinical fellow with July 2015 start; will begin research in January 2017 - Siddhartha Mitra, MD, PhD (Michael Snyder, Genetics)
Understanding the evolution of cancer in response to treatment through integrated longitudinal Omics - Rupa Narayan, MD (Bruno Medeiros, Hematology; Ronald Levy, Oncology)
Analysis of Immunological Responses in Acute Leukemia
- Wendy Pang, MD, PhD (Irving Weissman, Pathology & Stem Cell Biology; Judith Shizuru, BMT)
Clinical fellow; will begin research in October 2015
Targeting blood-forming stem cells in myelodysplastic syndrome
- Mary-Elizabeth Muchmore Percival, MD (Bruno Medeiros, Hematology)
Improving outcomes in acute myeloid leukemia through clinical trials using novel molecularly targeted agents
- Ameen A. Salahudeen, MD, PhD (Calvin Kuo, Hematology)
Modeling aerodigestive malignancies through primary organoid culture - Sumit A. Shah, MD, MPH
Clinical fellow; will begin research in January 2016 - Tanaya Shree, MD, PhD
Clinical fellow; will begin research in March 2016 - Loretta S. Sullivan-Chang, MD (Dimitri Colevas, Oncology)
Molecular, epidemiological, clinical trials, and health services studies regarding the role of human papillomavirus in head and neck malignancies - Brian Sworder, MD, PhD
Clinical fellow with July 2015 start; will begin research in January 2017
- Tian Yi Zhang, MD, PhD
Clinical fellow; will begin research in January 2016 - Jeffrey Zweig, MD
Clinical fellow with July 2015 start; will begin research in January 2017
Instructors' Research & Clinical Interests
- Michael Khodadoust, MD, PhD (Ronald Levy, Ash Alizadeh, Oncology)
Anti-tumor immune responses in lymphoma
- Sujata Narayanan, MD (Sandy Srinivas, Oncology)
Early phase clinical trials, prostate cancer genomics and clinical trials in advanced bladder cancer
- Sukhmani Padda, MD (Heather Wakelee, Oncology)
Early phase trials in thoracic oncology and immunotherapy - Manali Patel, MD (Oncology)
GI Oncology research
- Yu Wong, MD, PhD (Mark Davis, Microbiology and Immunology)
Design of novel approach to measure T cell repertoire. Translational research in breast cancer