Current Research

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Darko Barisic, PhD

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease:
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cell Biology and Treatment

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Joan Beckman, MD, PhD

Regents of the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease:
BCR-ABL negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN)
Research focus: Cell Biology

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Shruti Bhatt, PhD

Emory University

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment 

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Amanda Blackmon, DO

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

Research focus: Treatment

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Yu-Chiao Chiu, PhD

University of Pittsburgh

Grant awarded: 2023
Disease:
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment

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Jennifer Foltz

Jennifer Foltz, PhD

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease:
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment 

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Franco Izzo, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
Research focus: Treatment 

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Tania Jain, PhD

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Grant awarded: 2023
Disease:
Myeloproliferative neoplasms, acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment

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Nadia Kershaw, D. Phil.

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (Victoria, Australia)

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
Hematological malignancies
Research focus: Cancer Cell Biology 

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Mririam Kim

Miriam Kim, MD

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease:
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment 

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Eric Lechman, PhD

University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)

Research focus: Cell Biology

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Shan Lin, PhD

Seattle Children's Hospital

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cancer Cell Biology

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Shoubao Ma

Shoubao Ma, PhD

Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease:
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)
Research focus: Treatment 

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Johanna Melo-Cardenas, PhD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease:
Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs)
Research focus: Cell Biology

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Ioanna Mosialou

Ioanna Mosialou, PhD

Columbia University Medical Center

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cancer Cell Biology 

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Santhosh K. Pasupuleti, PhD

Indiana University

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)
Research focus: Causes/Risk Factors

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Martin Rivas

Martin Rivas, PhD

Miller School of Medicine of the University of Miami

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Pediatric AML (DS-AMKL)

Research focus: Causes/Risk Factors

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Reona Sakemura, MD

Mayo Clinic Rochester

Grant awarded: 2023
Disease:
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Research focus: Treatment

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Caner Saygin, MD

The University of Chicago

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease:
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Research focus: Treatment 

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Mikolaj Slabicki

Mikolaj Slabicki, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease:
Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment 

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Elisa ten Hacken, PhD

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
Research focus: Causes/Risk Factors

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Palaniraja Thandapani, PhD

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Grant awarded: 2025 - The Inaugural Annette C. Pane Research Grant recipient
Disease: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

Research focus: Cell Biology

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Victor Tkachev, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
Leukemia
Research focus: Cancer Cell Biology

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Alejandro Villarino, PhD

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center/University of Miami Health Systems

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
T cell leukemias
Research focus: Treatment

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Eric Wang, PhD

The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine

Grant awarded: 2024
Disease:
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cancer Cell Biology

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Christine Zhang, PhD

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Grant awarded: 2025
Disease:
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cell biology

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Completed research + results

To learn about research projects, supported by the Leukemia Research Foundation in previous years, and their results, click here.