Jonny Mendoza-Castrejon

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Jeffrey Magee, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Georgia-Athens, 2018

Enrollment year: 2019

Research summary
My research is focused on understanding how normal hematopoietic stem cell development underlies mechanisms of pediatric leukemia initiation.

Graduate publications
Li Y, Mendoza-Castrejon J, Patel RM, Casey EB, Denby E, Bryder D, Magee JA. 2024 LIN28B promotes differentiation of fully transformed AML cells but is dispensable for fetal leukemia suppression. Leukemia, 38(3):648-51. PMCID: PMC10912017

Li Y, Yang W, Patel RM, Casey EB, Denby E, Mendoza-Castrejon J, Rodriguez-Lopez P, Magee JA. 2023 FLT3ITD drives context-specific changes in cell identity and variable interferon dependence during AML initiation. Blood, 141(12):1442-56. PMCID: PMC10082380

Mendoza-Castrejon J, Magee JA. 2023 Layered immunity and layered leukemogenicity: Developmentally restricted mechanisms of pediatric leukemia initiation. Immunol Rev, 315(1):197-215