Pediatric Hematology & Oncology Training Program (PHO-TP)
Award #: T32 HD007499
Project period | May 1999 – March 2026 |
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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.
Applications are available on the Siteman Cancer Center website.
Principal Investigators/Program Directors

Joshua B. Rubin, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology & Oncology
Professor, Neurology
Professor, Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-454-6018

Jorge Di Paola, MD
Professor of Pediatrics & Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Elizabeth Finney McDonnell Endowed Chair in Pediatric Hematology Oncology
Division Director, Hematology & Oncology
- Phone: 314-454-6018
Training Director

Laura Graves Schuettpelz, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology & Oncology
Director of Fellowship Program
Co-Director, High Risk Hematologic Malignancy
- Phone: 314-454-6018
Mentors
Program Faculty | Department or Institution | Role in Program |
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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 |