Jeffrey Rubnitz

Jeffrey Rubnitz, M.D., Ph.D. is the director of the Leukemia/Lymphoma Division in the Department of Oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Dr. Rubnitz completed his M.D. and Ph.D. at the UCSD School of Medicine and his Pediatrics residency and Hematology/Oncology fellowship at Stanford Children’s Hospital. Dr. Rubnitz has a wealth of experience in leading and participating in clinical trials in pediatric leukemia. Over the past few years, Dr. Rubnitz led early phase studies of selinexor, panobinostat, and venetoclax for children with relapsed leukemia. Since becoming Director of the Leukemia/Lymphoma Division in 2014, he focused on expanding St. Jude’s efforts in developmental therapeutics for childhood leukemia. In 2002, he became director of the acute myeloid leukemia (AML) clinical program and subsequently led 3 multi-institutional clinical trials (AML02, AML08, and AML16) that were designed to improve the outcome of children with newly diagnosed AML. Dr. Rubnitz’s research initially focused on the characterization of prognostic factors in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.