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Office
300 Longwood Ave
Research Building floor 7
Boston, MA 02115Phone+1 617-919-2069
Education & Training
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteFellowship, Hematology and Medical Oncology, 1986 - 1988
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1983 - 1986
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityClass of 1983
Certifications & Licensure
MA State Medical License 1986 - 2025- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Medical Oncology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Elected Member Institute of Medicine, 2005
- Elected Member The American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1996
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare Marquis Whos Who
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 324 citationsHooked! Modeling human disease in zebrafishCristina Santoriello, Leonard I. Zon
The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2012-07-02 - 120 citationsZebrafish blood stem cells.Aye T. Chen, Leonard I. Zon
Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 2009-09-01 - 323 citationsThe ‘definitive’ (and ‘primitive’) guide to zebrafish hematopoiesisAlan J. Davidson, Leonard I. Zon
Oncogene. 2004-09-20
Journal Articles
- Human Tumor Genomics and Zebrafish Modeling Identify SPRED1 Loss as a Driver of Mucosal MelanomaHong Wu, Richard C Jordan, Boris C Bastian, Leonard I Zon, Iwei Yeh, Science Magazine
- Protection from UV Light Is an Evolutionarily Conserved Feature of the Haematopoietic NicheDavid E Fisher, John M Gansner, Leonard I Zon, Nature
Abstracts/Posters
- Transcriptional Regulation of Coenzyme Q Biosynthesis By TIF1_ Drives ErythropoiesisLeonard I. Zon, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/7/2019
- Transcription Factor Induction of Ectopic Vascular Blood Stem Cell Niches In VivoLeonard I. Zon, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/9/2019
- Ing4 Regulates Stress Hematopoiesis and Represses Self-Renewal in Multipotent Progenitor CellsLeonard I. Zon, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/9/2019
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Lectures
- Transcriptional Signaling Centers Govern Human Erythropoiesis and Harbor Genetic Variations of Red Blood Cell Traits2018 ASH Annual Meeting - San Diego, CA - 12/1/2018
- Friday Scientific Workshop on Myeloid Development: Transcription Factors60th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting - 11/30/2018
Press Mentions
New Starr Cancer Consortium Grants Awarded to Weill Cornell Medicine ResearchersOctober 30th, 2024- Curbing Blood Cancers by Teaching Immune Cells to Kill Mutant Stem CellsSeptember 13th, 2024
- Could We Make Blood Anywhere in the Body?May 10th, 2023
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Grant Support
- A Comparative Approach To Globin Regulation/ThalassemiaNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2003–2012
- Cancer Biology In The ZebrafishNational Cancer Institute2003–2012
- Customized Stem Cells For Clinical Application In Blood DisordersNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2011
- Control Of Erythroid Differentiation By Transcription ElongationNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2011
- Human Pluripotent Stem Cell And Progenitor Models Of Cardiac And Blood DiseasesNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2009–2011
- Embryonic HematopoiesisNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute1992–2011
- Mount Desert Island Stem Cell SymposiumNational Institute Of General Medical Sciences2010
- Role Of Tif1y In ErythropoiesisNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2006–2010
- Characterizing The Zebrafish GenomeNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2003–2010
- Induced Pluripotent Cells For Blood DiseasesNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2009
- Core--ZebrafishNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases1999–2009
- Mount Desert Island Stem Cell SymposiumNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2007–2008
- Fetal Globin SilencingNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2003–2006
- International Society For Stem Cell Research MeetingNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2002–2006
- Red Cell Gordon ConferenceNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2005
- Comparative Approach To The Hematopoietic Stem CellNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2002–2004
- Ferroportin 1 In Vertebrate Iron UtilizationNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2001–2002
- Core--Functional Genomics And BioinformaticsNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases1999–2002
- Comparative Approach To Globin Regulation/ThalassemiaNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases1998–2002
- Characterizing The Zebrafish GenomeNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases1998–2002
- Signal Transduction In Erythroid CellsNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute1996–2000
- Induction Of The Hematopoiesis Stem Cell During Zebrafish EmbryogenesisNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases1996–1998
- Core--ZebrafishNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases1996–1998
- Current Advances In Defining The Zebrafish GenomeNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases1997
- Erythropoietin Ligand-Receptor InteractionNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute1989–1992
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