Erik Nelson, Ph.D

Erik Nelson joined The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) in 2013.  He manages the Career Development Program, LLS’s longest running program, and he contributes to other LLS grant programs.  He also provides an analysis of LLS-funded research to LLS staff for grant portfolio management.  He has extensive research experience in the molecular biology of blood cancer, having co-authored numerous publications in the field.  He previously was an Instructor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he researched blood cancer signaling pathways common to many cancers and deciphered means to potentially target these pathways therapeutically.  He also performed postdoctoral research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston where he studied how blood cell development is altered in leukemia.  He received his PhD in molecular genetics from Johns Hopkins University.