Bhoopalan Lab Team

Dr. Senthil Bhoopalan is a pediatric bone marrow transplant physician-scientist. He obtained his MBBS from the Government Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, India and pursued advanced research training at the University of Maryland, where he obtained his PhD in 2015. During his pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at St. Jude, he utilized CRISPR/Cas9 to generate a human cellular model of Diamond-Blackfan anemia (DBA). This further accelerated the preclinical development of lentiviral gene therapy for DBA. Dr. Bhoopalan is the recipient of several early investigator grants, including the DKMS John Hansen Research Grant and the K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NIH/NIDDK. He received the 2023 Emerging Generation Award from the American Society of Clinical Investigation. The Bhoopalan lab is interested in fostering a climate of collaboration and excellence while performing patient-inspired research to understand the mechanisms of hematopoietic dysfunction in human diseases and translating lab-based observations to novel therapies for patients.