Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BS, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005
• PhD, Washington University, 2013
• MD, Washington University, 2013

Training

• Intern, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2013 - 2014
• Resident, St. Louis Children's Hospital, 2014 - 2015
• Clinical Fellow, Washington University, 2015 - 2019

Licensure and Board Certification

• MO, Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts
• 2018General Pediatrics
• 2021MO, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology #3689

Honors and Awards

• Beckman Scholar, 2003 - 2004
• Pediatric Scientist Development Award, 2016 - 2019
• Alex's Lemonade Stand Young Investigator Award, 2019 - 2022

Recent Publications view all (10)

1. di Martino O, Ferris M, Hadwiger G, Sarkar S, Vu A, Menendez-Gutierrez M, Ricote M, and Welch J.*Authors contributed equally. RXRA DT448/9PP generates a dominant active variant capable of inducing maturation in acute myeloid leukemia cells Haematologica. 2021. doi:10.3324/haematol.2021.278603  PMID:34134472 
2. di Martino O, Niu H, Hadwiger G, Kuusanmanki H, Ferris M, Vu A, Beales J, Wagner C, Menendez-Giutierrez M, Ricote. M, Heckman C, and Welch J. . Endogenous and combination retinoids are active in myelomonocytic leukemias Haematologica. 2021;106(4):1008-21. doi:10.3324/haematol.2020.264432  PMID:33241677 
3. Carrieri, F.A., Murray, P.J., Ditsova, D., Ferris, M.A., Davies, P., Dale, J.K. CDK1 and CDK2 regulate NICD1 turnover and the periodicity of the segmentation clock. EMBO Rep. 2019;20(7). doi:10.15252/embr.201846436  PMCID:PMC6607002  PMID:31267714 
4. Spencer, D., Young, M., Lamprecht, T., Helton, N., Fulton, R., O’Laughlin, M., Fronick, C., Magrini, V., Demeter, R., Miller, C., Klco, J., Wilson, R., Ley, T. Epigenomic analysis of the HOX gene loci reveals mechanisms that may control canonical expression patterns in AML and normal hematopoietic cells. Leukemia. 2015;29(6):1279-89. doi:10.1038/leu.2015.6  PMCID:PMC4456213  PMID:25600023 
5. Russler-Germain, D., Spencer, D., Young, M., Lamprecht, T., Miller, C., Fulton, R., Meyer, M., Erdmann-Gilmore, P., Townsend, R., Wilson, R., Ley, T. . The R882H DNMT3A mutation associated with AML dominantly inhibits wild-type DNMT3A by blocking its ability to form active tetramers Cancer Cell. 2014;25(4):442-54. doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2014.02.010  PMCID: PMC4018976   PMID:24656771  
6. Young M, Larson D, Sun CW, George D, Ding L, Miller C, Lin L, Pawlik K, Chen K, Fan X, Schmidt H, Kalicki-Veizer J, Cook L, Swift G, Demeter R, Wendl M, Sands M, Mardis E, Wilson R, Townes T, Ley T. . Background mutations in parental cells account for most of the genetic heterogeneity of induced pluripotent stem cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2012;10(5):570-82. doi:10.1016/j.stem.2012.03.002  PMCID:PMC3348423  PMID:22542160 
7. Ding L, Ley T, Larson D, Miller C, Koboldt D, Welch J, Ritchey J, Young M, Lamprecht T, McLellan M, McMichael J, Wallis J, Lu C, Shen D, Harris C, Dooling D, Fulton R, Fulton L, Chen K, Schmidt H, Kalicki-Veizer J, Magrini V, Cook L, McGrath S, Vickery T, Wendl M, Heath S, Watson M, Link D, Tomasson M, Shannon W, Payton J, Kulkarni S, Westervelt P, Walter M, Graubert T, Mardis E, Wilson R, and DiPersio J. Patterns of clonal evolution in relapsed acute myeloid leukemia revealed by whole genome sequencing Nature. 2012;481(7382):506-10. doi:10.1038/nature10738  PMCID:PMC3267864  PMID:22237025  
8. Gong L, Puri M, Ünlü M, Young M, Robertson K, Viswanathan S, Krishnaswamy A, Dowd SR and Minden JS. Drosophila Ventral Furrow Morphogenesis: A Proteomic Analysis. Development. 2004;131(3):643-56. doi:10.1242/dev.00955  PMID:14711877  
9. Hiroi N, Wong ML, Licinio J, Park C, Young M, Gold PW, Chrousos GP, Bornstein SR. Expression of corticotropin releasing hormone receptors type I and type II mRNA in suicide victims and controls Mol Psychiatry. 2001;6(5):540-6. doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4000908  PMID:11526468  
10. di Martino O, Niu H, Hadwiger G, Ferris M, Welch J. "Cytokine-mediated Nur77 Transcriptional Activation in Hematopoietic cells JBC.