Sarcoma Fellows
FROM THE KACF SARCOMA LAB AT MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING
Support from the Kristen Ann Carr Fund (KACF) will fully fund Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) senior research technician Lei Zhang, PhD, as she works to uncover the genes that drive the development of rare sarcomas in children and young adults. Using state-of-the-art genetic sequencing and the genome-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9, Dr. Zhang and her…
Read MoreMeet the 2019/2020 KACF Surgical Fellow, Tara O’Donohue, M.D.
Tara O’Donohue, MD is the KACF medical oncology fellow for 2019 – 2020. She is in her third and final year of her pediatric hematology oncology fellowship and also serving as one of Peds Chief Fellows. A graduate of the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Dr. O’Donohue did her internship and residency training at NYP-Weill…
Read MoreMeet our 2019 Medical Oncology Fellow – Prachi Kothari, DO
Dr. Prachi Kothari Research Project as the 2019 Kristen Ann Carr Medical Oncology Fellow Tumor profiling is often done by studying a sample of tumor tissue. As biopsies are invasive and often risky in patients who are severely ill, obtaining a blood sample to determine this same molecular information would be beneficial. The development of…
Read MoreMeet the 2018/2019 KACF Surgical Fellow, Philip M. Spanheimer, M.D.
Dr. Spanheimer will study phyllodes tumors which are a rare sarcomatous tumors of the breast. Due to the rarity phyllodes tumors are not well described in the literature. He aim to identify patterns of recurrence based on clinical and pathologic variables. This will allow the identification of factors that place patients at greater risk for…
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