Current Fellows' Research & Clinical Interests
(Preceptor and Preceptor’s Department or Division)
Ash Alizadeh MD, PhD (Irv Weissman, Pathology)
Stem cells in hematologic diseases.
Greg Behbehani, MD, PhD
Greg is a first-year fellow.
Teja Bedi, MD (Steve Coutre and Jason Gotlib, Hematology)
Clinical trials in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and clinical research on myeloproliferate disorders.
Joshua Brody, M.D. (Ronald Levy, Oncology)
Immunotherapy of lymphoma, specifically model systems and clinical trials of dendritic cell vaccines.
Andy Chen, MD, PhD (Steve Coutre, Hematology; Ranjana Advani, Oncology)
Clinical trials in multiple myeloma and lymphoma.
Millie Das, MD
Millie is a first-year fellow.
Basem Goueli, MD, PhD
Basem is a first-year fellow.
Matt Gubens, MD, MS
Matt is a first-year fellow.
Lauren Harshman, MD (Sandy Srinivas, Oncology)
Clinical trials in GU Oncology.
Gregory Heestand, MD
Gregory is a second-year fellow in Hematology/Oncology; he will begin research work later this year.
Jerry Hsu, MD, PhD (Steve Artandi, Hematology)
Role of telomerase in cancer development.
Eric Humke, MD, PhD (Matt Scott, Developmental Biology)
WNT pathway as signaling in lung and pancreas cancers.
Susan Kao, MD
Susan is a second-year fellow in Hematology/Oncology.
Holbrook Kohrt, MD
Holbrook is a second-year fellow in Hematology/Oncology; he will begin a PhD program in biosciences in spring 2009.
Atul Kumar, MD, PhD (Allan Ballmain, Cancer Research Institute, UCSF)
Role of Lung Stem Cells in Adenocarcinomas.
Pamela L. Kunz, MD (George Fisher and James Ford, Oncology )
Gastrointestinal clinical research.
Yelena Krupitskaya, MD (Heather Wakelee, Oncology)
Clinical research in lung cancer.
Mia Levy, MD
Mia is pursuing a PhD in Medical Informatics.
Aaron Logan, MD, PhD
Aaron is a first-year fellow.
Lauren Maeda, MD
Lauren is a first-year fellow.
Scott McLellan, MD, PhD
Scott is a first-year fellow.
Amy McMullen, MD
Amy is a second-year fellow in Hematology/Oncology; she will begin research next spring in GI Oncology.
Mehrdad Mobasher, MD
Mehrdad is a second-year fellow in Hematology/Oncology; he will begin research work next spring in GI Oncology.
Stephen Oh, MD, PhD (Garry Nolan, Microbiology and Immunology)
Signaling in AML.
Priti Patel, MD/MS
Priti is a first-year fellow.
Stavroula (Stevie) Otis, MD
Stevie is a second-year fellow in Hematology/Oncology; she will begin research work next year.
Russell Pachynski, MD (Eugene Butcher, Pathology)
Lymphocyte trafficking.
Daniel Pollyea, MD
Daniel is a second-year fellow in Hematology/Oncology; he will begin research work next spring.
Rajat Rohatgi, MD, PhD (Matthew P. Scott, Developmental Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering)
Hedgehog signal transduction and its involvement in lung cancer.
Mahesh Seetharam, MD
Mahesh is is a second-year fellow in Hematology/Oncology; he will begin research work next year.
Shaveta Vinayak, MD (James Ford and Allison Kurian, Oncology)
Shaveta is a second-year fellow in Hematology/Oncology; she will begin research work in translational breast cancer.
Wesley Witteles, MD (Jason Gotlib, Hematology)
Clinical trials in myeloproliferative disorders.
Yu Wong, MD, PhD (Mark Davis, Microbiology and Immunology)
Design of novel approach to measure T cell repertoire.
Jennifer Young, MD
Jennifer is a first-year fellow.
Instructors' Research & Clinical Interests
Ravi Majeti, MD, PhD (Irv Weissman, Pathology)
AML stem cell.
Elizabeth Price, MD (Stan Schrier, Hematology)
Anemia in the elderly study.
Melinda Telli, MD (Ellie Guardino and Robert Carlson, Oncology)
Clinical trials in breast oncology.