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Clinical & Research Roster

Our team

Clinicians, scientists, and coordinators caring for our patients and their families.

Priya Vanderlin
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Priya Vanderlin, MD, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics
  • Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Priya is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist and physician-scientist. She completed her MD and PhD at the University (developmental cell biology, in a major research group), pediatric residency at the Hospital, and a pediatric heme/onc fellowship before joining the faculty in 2018. Her clinical focus is Phase-I trials in relapsed and refractory pediatric solid tumors; her laboratory builds patient-derived organoid models from trial participants to study mechanisms of response and resistance. She co-chairs a national precision-medicine working group.

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Translational Research

3 members
  • Sofia Reyes-Aguilar

    Sofia Reyes-Aguilar, PhD

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Sofia leads the patient-derived organoid biobank.

  • Aaron Lindqvist

    Aaron Lindqvist, PhD

    Biostatistician

    Aaron is the lab's embedded biostatistician.

  • Kavya Anand

    Kavya Anand

    Research Specialist

    Kavya runs the wet-lab side of the organoid biobank — derivation from fresh tumor tissue, quality control, drug-response screening, and storage.

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Clinical Coordination

2 members
  • Hana Okafor

    Hana Okafor, MPH

    Senior Clinical Research Coordinator

    Hana coordinates trial enrollment, regulatory documentation, and family communication across our open studies.

  • Joseph Whittaker

    Joseph Whittaker, RN, BSN

    Research Nurse Coordinator

    Joseph is our research nurse coordinator.

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Trainees

2 members
  • Marcus Hollinger

    Marcus Hollinger, MD

    Clinical Fellow

    Marcus is a third-year pediatric heme/onc fellow with a research focus on novel-agent dose-finding in pediatric sarcomas.

  • David Chen

    David Chen, MD, PhD

    MD-PhD Trainee (G4)

    David is in the research phase of an MD-PhD program.

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Alumni

2 former members
  • Eleanor Park

    Eleanor Park, MD

    Former Clinical Fellow (2021–2024)

    Now Assistant Professor, Pediatric Oncology

  • Rohan Mehta

    Rohan Mehta, PhD

    Former Postdoctoral Researcher (2020–2023)

    Now Senior Scientist — Pediatric Oncology, a pharmaceutical company