Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Training Program (PHO-TP)

Project period	May 1999 – March 2026
Predoc slots	0
Postdoc slots	2

The long-term goal of this program is to produce independent investigators capable of making important contributions to pediatric hematology and oncology. The program is open to MD’s or MD/PhD’s and will support one second-year (PGY-4) and one third-year fellow (PGY-5) each year. The trainees will be recruited from the extensive network of pediatric subspecialty training programs at Washington University School of Medicine.

This program will include qualified applicants with backgrounds in pediatric hematology and oncology research. Only those applicants with the highest likelihood of success as physicians/scientists will be chosen for funding. Supported trainees participate in didactic seminars, lectures and journal clubs that cover genomics, epigenomics, developmental biology, cellular therapeutics, clinical trial design and performance and survivorship as appropriate to their research projects. Trainees may perform their postdoctoral research in a wide range of laboratory and clinical settings at Washington University, provided the research is relevant to the field of pediatric hematology-oncology.

Training will be overseen by a program steering committee with expertise in each of these domains. Joshua B. Rubin, MD, PhD, and Jorge Di Paola, MD, serve as program directors and Laura Schuettpelz, MD, PhD, serves as the training director. This program will provide trainees with the opportunity to leverage the prodigious strengths of the Washington University research and clinical enterprises, in their quests to become the next generation of leaders in pediatric hematology-oncology research.

Principal Investigators/Program Directors

Training Director

Mentors

Program Faculty	Department or Institution	Role in Program
Broze, George	Internal Medicine / Hematology	Mentor / Executive Committee
Challen, Grant	Internal Medicine	Mentor
Choi, Kyunghee	Pathology and Immunology	Mentor
Cooper, Megan	Pediatrics / Pathology & Immunology	Mentor
Dinauer, Mary	Pediatrics / Hematology-Oncology	Mentor
DiPersio, John	Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Pathology & Immunology	Mentor
Doctor, Allan	Pediatrics / Critical Care	Mentor
Druley, Todd	Pediatrics / Genetics	Mentor
French, Anthony	Pediatrics / Pathology & Immunology, Bioengineering	Mentor
Hayashi, Robert	Pediatrics / Hematology and Oncology	Mentor
Jeffe, Donna	Medicine	Mentor
Ley, Timothy	Internal Medicine / Bone Marrow	Mentor
Link, Daniel	Internal Medicine / Bone Marrow	Mentor / Executive Committee
Magee, Jefrey	Pediatrics / Genetics	Mentor
Mitra, Robi	Genetics	Mentor
Rubin, Joshua	Pediatrics / Hematology and Oncology	Mentor
Sadler, J. Evan	Internal Medicine / Hematology	Mentor
Saunders, Scott	Pediatrics / Newborn Medicine	Mentor
Schwartz, Alan	Pediatrics / Hematology and Oncology	PI/PD / Mentor / Executive Committee
Schuettpelz, Laura	Pediatrics / Hematology-Oncology	Mentor
Shenoy, Shalini	Pediatrics / Hematology-Oncology	Mentor
Sleckman, Barry	Pathology and Immunology	Mentor
Spinella, Philip	Pediatrics / Critical Care Medicine	Mentor
Weilbaecher, Katherine	Internal Medicine / Medical Oncology	Mentor
Wilson, David	Pediatrics / Hematology and Oncology	Co-PD / Mentor / Executive Committee