2026 New Brunswick Patient and Family Conference
CONFERENCE LOCATION:
Heldrich Hotel
10 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Parking:
Complimentary hotel valet parking
CONFERENCE LOCATION:
Heldrich Hotel
10 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Parking:
Complimentary hotel valet parking
Lisa J. McReynolds, M.D., Ph.D., joined the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB) as a clinical fellow in 2016, was promoted to assistant clinical investigator in 2019 and became a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar in 2024. She earned her M.D. and Ph.D. at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she studied Smad signaling in a zebrafish model of hematopoiesis in the laboratory of Todd Evans, Ph.D. (2009). Dr. McReynolds then completed a residency in pediatrics at Morgan Stanley’s Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and fellowship through the joint program of Johns Hopkins
Dr. Young is a board-certified Pediatrician and Pediatric Hematologist and Oncologist who studies the genetics, molecular biology, and clinical management and treatment of bone marrow failure syndromes, myeloid malignancies, and other genetic disorders. He oversees clinical trials in aplastic anemia and Diamond-Blackfan anemia while also working with non-human primate models of disease and preclinical development. He also serves as the Medical Director for the RUNX1 Natural History Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Dr. Young received a B.Sc. from the University of Notre
Julia T. Warren, MD, PhD, joined Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in fall 2022. She is a hematologist with the Division of Hematology and the Pediatric Comprehensive Bone Marrow Failure Program.
Selection of a hematopoietic progenitor cell donor for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo HCT) is essential for treatment planning; however, the parameters that define an "optimal" donor in the modern era are not well defined. Historically, donor-recipient human…