Oncology

Matt Christopher, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Medical School: Washington University
Research Mentor: Timothy Ley, MD
Research Interests: Improve outcomes for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and other hematopoietic malignancies utilizing genomic and molecular biology techniques

Ryan Day, MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Medical School: Washington University
Fellowship: Hematology/Oncology
Mentor: Timothy Ley, MD
Research Interests: Hematologic malignancies and Mechanisms of leukemogenesis

Todd Fehniger, MD, PhD
Professor in Medicine
Medical School: Ohio State University
Research Mentor:
Research Interests: Cancer, cytokine, immunology, innate immunity, NK cells, small noncoding RNAs, immunotherapy, lymphoma, genomics

Patrick Grierson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Medical School: Ohio State
Mentor: Kian Lim, MD, PhD
Research Interests: identify novel molecular targets, either tumor cell intrinsic or extrinsic, to improve survival in this disease with limited therapeutic options

Brett Herzog, MD, PhD
- Email: bherzog@wustl.edu
Instructor in Medicine
Medical School: University of Oklahoma
Mentor: David DeNardo, PhD
Research Interests: how the tumor microenvironment (TME) impacts the progression and response to therapy in lung cancer

Angela Hirbe, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Medical School: Washington University
Research Mentor: David Gutmann, MD, PhD
Research Interests: Sarcoma, metastasis, genomics, cell signalling, NF1, MPNSTs

Meagan Jacoby, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Medicine
Medical School: Washington University
Research Mentor: Matthew J. Walter, MD
Research Interests: Bone marrow transplantation, leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome

Tanner Johanns, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Medical School: University of Minnesota
Research Mentor: Gavin Dunn, MD, PhD
Research Interests: Immunotherapy clinical trials, primary brain tumors and brain metastases, melanoma, merkel cell carcinoma

Kian-Huat Lim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Medicine
Medical School: National Taiwan University Hospital
Research Mentor: N/A
Research Interests: to understand the relationship and signaling crosstalk between inflammation and cancer

Brian Van Tine, MD, PhD
Professor in Medicine
Medical School: University of Alabama
Research Mentor: James Hsieh, MD, PhD
Research Interests: Understanding the metabolism of sarcomas for therapeutic developmential

Jeffrey Ward, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Medicine
Medical School: State University of NY Upstate
Research Mentor: Robert Schreiber, PhD
Research Interests: The identification of tumor specific mutant antigens recognized by the immune system as foreign that serve as the target of a T-cell response against tumors

John Welch, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Medicine
Medical School: University of California, San Diego
Research Mentor:
Research Interests: Leukemic alternations of normal hematopoietic self-renewal and differentiation