| BMT Faculty | Research Interests |
Bruce Blazar, MD – Section Chief
Professor
blaza001@umn.edu | Transplant Biology and Therapy |
Brief Description of Interest: Graft-versus-host disease, graft-versus-leukemia, and mouse/human tumor immunotherapies. |
Wei Chen, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
chenw@umn.edu | Immunotherapeutics
Transplant Biology and Therapy |
Brief Description of Interest: T cell-mediated immunotherapy of leukemia and hematological malignancies. Identification of tumor-associated antigens recognized by T cells; dendritic cell-based tumor vaccines. |
Keli Hippen, PhD
Assistant Professor
hippe002@umn.edu | Transplant Biology and Therapy
Immunotherapeutics |
Brief Description of Interest: Regulatory T cells for T cell tolerance and prevention of autoimmune disease. |
Troy Lund, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
lundx072@umn.edu | Transplant Biology & Therapy
Inborn Errors of Metabolism |
Brief Description of Interest: Understanding the pathophysiological processes underlying metabolic storage diseases (ALD, MLD, MPS I, etc) and improving the outcomes for metabolic storage disease hematopoietic cell transplantation |
Margaret MacMillan, MD – Clinical Director
Assistant Professor
macmi002@umn.edu | Transplant Biology and Therapy
Interventional therapeutics |
Brief Description of Interest: Clinical trials in Fanconi anemia, JMML and Acute GVHD. |
Wes Miller, MD
Assistant Professor
mill4991@umn.edu | Transplant Biology & Therapy
Inborn Errors of Metabolism |
Brief Description of Interest: Improving outcomes for transplantation for metabolic disorders. |
Angela Mortari, PhD
Associate Professor
panos001@umn.edu | Transplant Biology and Therapy |
Brief Description of Interest: Mechanisms responsible for GVHD & Idiopathic Pneumonia Syndrome. Genetic and immune parameters responsible for resistance or susceptibility to malignant histiocytosis. |
Paul Orchard, MD
Associate Professor
orcha001@umn.edu | Transplant Biology and Therapy
Inborn Errors of Metabolism |
Brief Description of Interest: Bone marrow transplant for inborn errors of metabolism. Phase I trials. |
Angela Smith, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
smith719@umn.edu | Transplant Biology & Therapy
Clinical Trials |
Brief Description of Interest: Stem cell transplant for immunodeficiencies and hemoglobinopathies. Acute and long-term transplant related complications. |
Heather Stefanski, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
stef0030@umn.edu | Transplant Biology & Therapy |
Brief Description of Interest: Expediting immune reconstitution after transplant.. |
Jakub Tolar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
tolar003@umn.edu | Transplant Biology and Therapy
Regenerative Medicine
Bone Marrow Failure |
Brief Description of Interest: Hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic adult stem cells: basic biology, homing, and application for correction of congenital disorders or tissue injury associated with bone marrow transplantation. Non-viral gene therapy for correction of congenital disorders in vivo and ex vivo. Clinical interests include Severe Aplastic Anemia and Dyskeratosis Congenita. |
Michael Verneris, MD
Assistant Professor
verneris@umn.edu | Immunotherapeutics
Transplant Biology and Therapy |
Brief Description of Interest: The identification, characterization and expansion of innate immune effector cell populations mediating graft vs. malignancy effects (NK-T cells, gamma/delta cells and NK cells). Mechanisms of tumor recognition, homing and cytotoxicity. |
John Wagner, MD – Division Head
Professor
wagne002@umn.edu | Transplant Biology and Therapy
Co-Director, Center of Translational Medicine |
Brief Description of Interest: Umbilical cord blood transplantation; unrelated donor marrow transplantation; Fanconi anemia |
Xianzheng Zhou, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
zhoux058@umn.edu | Immunotherapeutics
Transplant Biology and Therapy |
Brief Description of Interest: Enhancement of Immunotoxicity to leukemia. |
