Current Research
Darko Barisic, PhD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cell Biology and Treatment
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
Shruti Bhatt, PhD
Emory University
Grant awarded: 2024
Disease: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment
Amanda Blackmon, DO
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment
Yu-Chiao Chiu, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Grant awarded: 2023
Disease: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment
Jennifer Foltz, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment
Franco Izzo, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Grant awarded: 2024
Disease: Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
Research focus: Treatment
Tania Jain, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Grant awarded: 2023
Disease: Myeloproliferative neoplasms, acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment
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
Miriam Kim, MD
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment
Eric Lechman, PhD
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cell Biology
Shan Lin, PhD
Seattle Children's Hospital
Grant awarded: 2024
Disease: Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cancer Cell Biology
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
Johanna Melo-Cardenas, PhD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs)
Research focus: Cell Biology
Ioanna Mosialou, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center
Grant awarded: 2024
Disease: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cancer Cell Biology
Santhosh K. Pasupuleti, PhD
Indiana University
Grant awarded: 2024
Disease: Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML)
Research focus: Causes/Risk Factors
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
Reona Sakemura, MD
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Grant awarded: 2023
Disease: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Research focus: Treatment
Caner Saygin, MD
The University of Chicago
Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Research focus: Treatment
Mikolaj Slabicki, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Treatment
Elisa ten Hacken, PhD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Grant awarded: 2024
Disease: Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
Research focus: Causes/Risk Factors
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
Victor Tkachev, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Grant awarded: 2024
Disease: Leukemia
Research focus: Cancer Cell Biology
Alejandro Villarino, PhD
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center/University of Miami Health Systems
Grant awarded: 2024
Disease: T cell leukemias
Research focus: Treatment
Eric Wang, PhD
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Grant awarded: 2024
Disease: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cancer Cell Biology
Christine Zhang, PhD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Grant awarded: 2025
Disease: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
Research focus: Cell biology
Completed research + results
To learn about research projects, supported by the Leukemia Research Foundation in previous years, and their results, click here.