Anemias & Hypocellular Marrow Disorders

BIOGRAPHY

CURRENT POSITIONS:
• Chief, Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Head, Clinical Services, Clinical Hematology/Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
• Consultant, National Cancer Institute
• Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Professor Young is coordinator, NHLBI Hematology and Transfusion Medicine Course in Vietnam; Tutor, NIH Clinical Research Training Program for Medical and Dental Students; Lecturer, George Washington University Hematology Board Review Course.

Professor Young holds a number of positions on committees and panels with the NHLBI and NIH. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Aplastic Anemia and Myelodysplasia Foundation and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Fanconi Anemia Research Fund.

SELECTED EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Editor, Seminars in Hematology
• Series Editor, Hematology, Marcel-Dekker
• Editorial Board, International Journal of Hematology
• Editorial Board, Haematologica

HONORS AND AWARDS:
Dr Young has received many honors and awards for his outstanding work and research including:
• NIH Director's Award
• Dean's Lecture, Mt Sinai Medical School, New York
• Samuel S Riven Visiting Lectureship, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• G Burroughs Mider Lecture, National Institutes of Health

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Human hematopoiesis
• Aplastic anemia and bone marrow failure, pathogenesis and treatment
• Parvoviruses
• Hepatitis viruses
• Virus interactions with hematopoietic cells
• Immune response to virus infection
• Apoptosis
• Role of cytotoxic lymphocytes in disease
• Interferon, cytokines, and other interleukins
• Mechanisms of genomic instability
• Malignant transformation and clonal evolution