Peter D. Aplan

Biography

Dr. Aplan received a B.S. in biophysics (1979) and an M.D. (1983) from Pennsylvania State University in 1983. From 1983 to 1987, he trained in pediatrics and was chief resident at the Children's Hospital of Buffalo. He received fellowship training in pediatric hematology/oncology at the NCI from 1987 to 1992 and served as assistant, then associate, professor of pediatrics and microbiology and immunology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute from 1992 to 1999. He moved to the NCI in 1999 where he is an investigator in the Genetics Branch.

Research Interest

1) myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), 2) acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), 3) T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, 4) chromosomal translocations, 5) templated sequence insertion polymorphisms (TSIPs), 6) genomic instability, 7) Cancer Biology, 8) Chromosome Biology, 9) Developmental Biology, 10) Genetics and Genomics, 11) Stem Cell Biology