Portrait Jana Maria Ellegast

Jana Maria Ellegast
Prof. Dr. med.

Attending Physician with extended responsibilites, Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology

Specialties

  • Myeloid neoplasms: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML),
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), Clonal Cytopenia of Undetermined Significance (CCUS)
  • Sarcomas
Appointment

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 22 14

Career

Since 11/2023 Assistant Professor for Translational Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
Attending Physician, Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital Zurich
2023 Sidney Farber Principal Investigator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI)
2022 – 2023 Instructor, Harvard Medical School (HMS)
2016 – 2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow Stegmaier Lab (PI Stegmaier), Pediatric Oncology, DFCI
2012 – 2016 Physician Scientist, Department of Hematology (Prof. M. Manz), University Hospital Zurich
2009 – 2012 Physician Scientist, Department of Internal Medicine (Prof. H. Döhner), Ulm University Hospital
2010 Thesis (Dissertation), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU)
12/2008 MD, Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Most important memberships

  • International Society of Experimental Hematology (ISEH)
  • Swiss Society of Medical Oncology (SSMO)
  • Connective Tissue Oncology Society (CTOS)
  • American Association of Cancer Research (AACR)
  • American Society of Hematology (ASH)
  • Swiss Society of Hematology (SGH-SSH)
  • European Hematology Association (EHA)
  • German Society of Hematology/Oncology (DGHO)
  • German Society for Mountain and Expedition Medicine (BExMed)

Research focus

  • Inflammation in hematopoiesis and hematopoietic stem cell diseases (CHIP, CCUS, MDS, AML)
  • Biology of bone and soft tissue sarcomas with a focus on inflammatory signaling
  • Target detection and precise oncology
  • Tumor environment
  • Drug resistance

Publications

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Further

  • 2024 EHA Physician-Scientist Research Grant
  • 2024 The Rally Foundation Independent Investigator Award
  • 2023 American Society of Hematology Scholar Fellow to Faculty Award
  • 2023 Sidney Farber Scholar Independent Investigator Award
  • 2021 Helen Fellow of the Helen Gurley Brown Presidential Initiative at DFCI
  • 2020 Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation Emerging Investigator Fellowship
  • 2019 Lady Tata Memorial Trust International Award
  • 2016 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Advanced Post-doctoral Mobility Scholarship
  • 2015 Swiss Cancer Research fellowship (rejected in favor of the SNSF fellowship)
  • 2013 Scholarship from the Hanne Liebermann Foundation, Zurich
  • 2010 Promotion as Physician-Scientist by the University of Ulm
  • 2007 Fellow of the Cornell Program, Faculty of Medicine, TUM, Munich (two students selected per year)
  • 2005 Fellow of the DFG Graduate School Oligonucleotides in Cell Biology and Therapy, LMU, Munich
  • 2005 Scholarship holder of the mentoring program for the most talented students, TU Munich
  • 2002 Merit scholarship for the most talented graduates in the state of Bavaria (top 1%)
  • 2002 Prize of the Association of German Biologists for undergraduate research work in neurobiology

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