Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Dr. Mateusz Koptyra is a Senior Scientist responsible for initiation, coordination and implementation of scientific projects around the Center’s research units. His team identifies the research demands at the clinical level and creates pipelines for projects to test the research proposals at a pr

Jena Lilly is the Director of Operations and Strategic Planning for the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine. Currently, she leads a team of over 30 people in support of international pediatric oncology research consortiums which combined, include over 25 pediatric hospitals. She is al

Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Clinical research, Early phase clinical trials in neuro-oncology, Developmental therapeutics

Kristina Cole, MD, PhD is a pediatric oncologist who has dedicated her career to translational and clinical research, combining her expertise in molecular pathology, cancer genomics, and developmental therapeutics to identify novel treatments for children with cancer. The long-term goal of Dr. Co

Michael J. Fisher, MD, is Chief of the Section of Neuro-Oncology, Director of the Neuro-Oncology Fellowship Program and Director of the Neurofibromatosis Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has a special interest in brain tumors and neurofibromatosis.Areas of Experti

Pediatric brain tumors, developmental neuropathology, neurometabolic conditions and neuromuscular disease

Dr. Jane Minturn's research is focused on developing personalized and targeted therapeutics in tumors of the nervous system and understanding the late effects of our therapies in long-term survivors.As part of our approach to identifying new treatments for children with brain tumors,

Jennifer Mason is responsible for the overall project and operations management for multiple projects under the CTU division of the D3b Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, including the Children’s Brain Tumor Network (CBTN), and autopsy projects. She is also responsible for en

Shannon Robins is a Clinical Research Coordinator responsible for patient consenting and enrollment, clinical data management and quality assurance for the Children’s Brain Tumor Network (CBTN). She also oversees a sub-cohort project focused on Neurofibromatosis II research and assists with the L

I started working at D3b in November of 2018 and am the Research Technician for CBTN. I am responsible for all specimens collected for CBTN at CHOP and for managing all incoming shipments from external CBTN sites. For all specimens collected, I accession the samples into our BioRepository Core fo