Nadia Carlesso MD, PhD

Nadia Carlesso M.D., Ph.D., joined the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope as Associate Director of Basic Research in the Gehr Family Center for Leukemia Research, Professor in the Department of Hematologic Malignancies Translational Science and Professor at the Gehr Family Center for Leukemia Research. Dr. Carlesso and her team will lead efforts to identify novel therapeutic approaches targeting simultaneously the leukemia cells and the leukemic microenvironment, in particular in relapse and refractory disease, and strategies to improve hematopoietic cell engraftment following transplant.

Dr. Carlesso received her M.D. from the University of Torino (Italy) and her Ph.D. from the University of Genova (Italy). She performed her Ph.D. work at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and received the postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Carlesso has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2001. Her work has been supported by NHLBI and NIDDK and by several external grants including the MPN/Leukemia Lymphoma Foundation. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Experimental Hematology and of Trends in Cancer, she is a member of peer review panels for NIH, the Department of Defense and the NY State Stem Cell Science.