VijayGaneshSankaranMDPhD
Pediatric Hematology & Oncology • Boston, MAAttending Physician in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center; Lodish Family Chair, Boston Children's Hospital; Jan Ellen Paradise, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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Office
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Phone+1 617-355-6000- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Vijay Sankaran is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist in Boston, MA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Boston Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and has been in practice 12 years. He is experienced in pediatric hematology/oncology, including in thalassemia, sickle cell disease, bone marrow failure syndromes, genetic predisposition to blood cancers, and other disorders impacting hematopoiesis.
Education & Training
Children's Hospital/Boston Medical CenterFellowship, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 2013 - 2015- Children's Hospital/Boston Medical CenterResidency, Pediatrics, 2010 - 2013
Harvard Medical SchoolClass of 2010
Certifications & Licensure
MA State Medical License 2013 - 2024- American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
- American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Clinical Trials
- Pilot Phase I/II Study of Amino Acid Leucine in Treatment of Patients With Transfusion-Dependent Diamond Blackfan Anemia Start of enrollment: 2013 Jun 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- A noncoding regulatory variant in IKZF1 increases acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in Hispanic/Latino children.Adam J de Smith, Lara Wahlster, Soyoung Jeon, Linda Kachuri, Susan Black, Jalen Langie, Liam D Cato, Nathan Nakatsuka, Tsz-Fung Chan, Guangze Xia, Soumyaa Mazumder, We...> ;Cell Genomics. 2024 Apr 10
- Exome copy number variant detection, analysis, and classification in a large cohort of families with undiagnosed rare genetic disease.Gabrielle Lemire, Alba Sanchis-Juan, Kathryn Russell, Samantha Baxter, Katherine R Chao, Moriel Singer-Berk, Emily Groopman, Isaac Wong, Eleina England, Julia Goodrich...> ;American Journal of Human Genetics. 2024 May 2
- A torpor-like state (TLS) in mice slows blood epigenetic aging and prolongs healthspan.Lorna Jayne, Aurora Lavin-Peter, Julian Roessler, Alexander Tyshkovskiy, Mateusz Antoszewski, Erika Ren, Aleksandar Markovski, Senmiao Sun, Hanqi Yao, Vadim N Gladyshe...> ;Biorxiv. 2024 Mar 25
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Press Mentions
- How a Leukemia Hijacks the Genes Needed by Blood Stem CellsDecember 19th, 2022
- What Caused the Blood Malignancies Linked to Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease?February 15th, 2022
- Stamping Bar Codes on Cells to Solve Medical MysteriesNovember 29th, 2021
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Hospital Affiliations
Boston Children's HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
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