Stephanie Halene
Arthur H. and Isabel Bunker Professor of Medicine (Hematology) and Professor of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine
Elected to the Academy in 2024
Education
Eberhardt-Karls-University Tuebingen (Germany), 1995, MD; 1997, DrMed
Professional Area(s)
Hematopoiesis and diseases thereof, such as myelodysplasia (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML); contributions to the understanding of the role of mutations in splicing factors to development and progression of MDS/AML, identifying how mutations change RNA binding affinity and specificity and how alterations of binding in vivo change splicing outcomes
Citation
For seminal contributions to our understanding of the role of splicing factor mutations in Myelodysplasia (MDS) and Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML); for contributions to the development of a highly efficient patient-derived xenotransplantation model for MDS and Sickle Cell Disease.