- The American Society of Hematology (2014)
- American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology (2014)
- American Association for Cancer Research (2012)
- American Academy of Pediatrics (2011)
Kathryn Dickerson, M.D.
- Pediatrics - Hematology-Oncology
Biography
Kathryn E. Dickerson, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology, and 2015 Translational Research Scholar in the UTSW Center for Translational Medicine. She earned her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry with a minor in Spanish from Indiana University. Before attending medical school, she completed a post-baccalaureate research training program at the NIH working, in the laboratory of Dr. Lee Weinstein. She returned to Indiana University to earn her medical degree, working in the laboratory of Dr. Nadia Carlesso. She completed her pediatric residency training in an integrated research pathway at The Ohio State University/Nationwide Children's Hospital, working in the laboratory of Dr. Michael Caligiuri. Her clinical interest is pediatric hematology with an emphasis on bone marrow failure disorders and cancer predisposition. Her research interest is in the epigenetic regulation of myeloid development in models of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Dr. Dickerson conducts her research under the mentorship of Dr. Jian Xu of the Children's Research Institute.
Education & Training
- Graduate School - UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (2017-2018)
- Residency - Ohio State University/Nationwide Children's Hospital (2011-2014), Pediatrics
- Medical School - Indiana University School of Medicine (2007-2011)
- Fellowship - UT Southwestern/Children's Medical Center (2014-2017), Pediatric Hematology/oncology
- Other Post Graduate Training - UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (2017-2018)
Professional Associations & Affiliations
Honors & Awards
- D Magazine Best Doctor 2024-2025
- Texas Monthly Super Doctors, Rising Star 2020
- Hyundai Hope on Wheels Young Investigator Award 2017
- Children's Cancer Fund "Call for Cure" Award Recipient 2017
- Certificate in Academic Medicine 2014, Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Certificate in Global Health 2014, Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Community Service Award 2011, Indiana University School of Medicine
- E. Jane Brownley Award 2011, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Member, Gold Humanism Honorary Society 2010
- Red Shoes Award 2010, Riley Hospital for Children
- Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award 2006, National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney disorders, Dr. Lee Weinstein Laboratory
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa 2005
Books & Publications
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Publications
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Congenital and Acquired Pediatric Bone Marrow Failure
Gloude NJ, Dickerson KE, Nakano TA Pediatrics in review 2025 Dec 46 667-677 -
Genomic Landscape of Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia Associated With Immunophenotypic Lineage Predominance: Impact on Diagnosis and Treatment
Zheng R, Gagan J, Botten GA, Koduru P, Weinberg OK, Chen M, Cantu MD, Jaso J, Germans S, Luu HS, Han L, Slone TL, Dickerson KE, John S, Madanat YF, Chung S, Collins R, Marinos A, Fuda F, Chen W European Journal of Haematology 2025 Jun 114 1041-1051 -
Successful Use of Granulocyte Transfusion Therapy as a Bridge to Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant in a Child With Aplastic Anemia and Refractory Perirectal Abscess
Dang MP, Rubbab B, Kwon JK, Noland D, Sue PK, Dickerson KE Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2025 May 47 204-207 -
T/myeloid mixed phenotype acute leukaemia harbouring TLX3::BCL11B with TLX3 activation
Botten GA, Zhang Y, Fuda F, Koduru P, Weinberg O, Slone TL, Zheng R, Dickerson KE, Gagan JR, Chen W British Journal of Haematology 2024 Aug 205 607-612 -
A phase 3 randomized trial of mavorixafor, a CXCR4 antagonist, for WHIM syndrome
Badolato R, Alsina L, Azar A, Bertrand Y, Bolyard AA, Dale D, Deyà-Martínez À, Dickerson KE, Ezra N, Hasle H, Kang HJ, Kiani-Alikhan S, Kuijpers TW, Kulagin A, Langguth D, Levin C, Neth O, Olbrich P, Peake J, Rodina Y, Rutten CE, Shcherbina A, Tarrant TK, Vossen MG, Wysocki CA, Belschner A, Bridger GJ, Chen K, Dubuc S, Hu Y, Jiang H, Li S, MacLeod R, Stewart M, Taveras AG, Yan T, Donadieu J Blood 2024 Jul 144 35-45 -
Pancytopenia and haematopoietic precursor vacuolisation in an infant: Clues to Pearson syndrome
Driskill JH, Cantu MD, Garcia J, Dickerson KE, Chen W British Journal of Haematology 2023 Sep 202 1079-1080 -
Structural variation cooperates with permissive chromatin to control enhancer hijacking–mediated oncogenic transcription
Botten GA, Zhang Y, Dudnyk K, Kim YJ, Liu X, Sanders JT, Imanci A, Droin N, Cao H, Kaphle P, Dickerson KE, Kumar KR, Chen M, Chen W, Solary E, Ly P, Zhou J, Xu J Blood 2023 Jul 142 336-351 -
Disabling Uncompetitive Inhibition of Oncogenic IDH Mutations Drives Acquired Resistance
Lyu J, Liu Y, Gong L, Chen M, Madanat YF, Zhang Y, Cai F, Gu Z, Cao H, Kaphle P, Kim YJ, Kalkan FN, Stephens H, Dickerson KE, Ni M, Chen W, Patel P, Mims AS, Borate U, Burd A, Cai SF, Yin CC, You MJ, Chung SS, Collins RH, Deberardinis RJ, Liu X, Xu J Cancer discovery 2023 Jan 13 170-193 -
Immature Platelet Fraction as a Biomarker for Disease Severity in Pediatric Respiratory Coronavirus Disease 2019
Lee NC, Demir YK, Ashraf B, Ibrahim I, Bat T, Dickerson KE Journal of Pediatrics 2022 Dec 251 187-189 -
Convergence of oncogenic cooperation at single-cell and single-gene levels drives leukemic transformation
Liu Y, Gu Z, Cao H, Kaphle P, Lyu J, Zhang Y, Hu W, Chung SS, Dickerson KE, Xu J Nature communications 2021 Dec 12 -
SLC25A38 congenital sideroblastic anemia: Phenotypes and genotypes of 31 individuals from 24 families, including 11 novel mutations, and a review of the literature
Heeney MM, Berhe S, Campagna DR, Oved JH, Kurre P, Shaw PJ, Teo J, Shanap MA, Hassab HM, Glader BE, Shah S, Yoshimi A, Ameri A, Antin JH, Boudreaux J, Briones M, Dickerson KE, Fernandez CV, Farah R, Hasle H, Keel SB, Olson TS, Powers JM, Rose MJ, Shimamura A, Bottomley SS, Fleming MD Human mutation 2021 Nov 42 1367-1383 -
Silencing of LINE-1 retrotransposons is a selective dependency of myeloid leukemia
Gu Z, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Cao H, Lyu J, Wang X, Wylie A, Newkirk SJ, Jones AE, Lee M, Botten GA, Deng M, Dickerson KE, Zhang CC, An W, Abrams JM, Xu J Nature genetics 2021 May 53 672-682 -
Interrogation of enhancer function by enhancer-targeting CRISPR epigenetic editing
Li K, Liu Y, Cao H, Zhang Y, Gu Z, Liu X, Yu A, Kaphle P, Dickerson KE, Ni M, Xu J Nature communications 2020 Dec 11 -
Therapy response and outcome explained by leukemia cell of origin
Gu Z, Dickerson KE, Xu J Cancer discovery 2020 Oct 10 1445-1447 -
A study assessing the feasibility of randomization of pediatric and young adult patients between matched unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation and immune-suppressive therapy for newly diagnosed severe aplastic anemia: A joint pilot trial of the North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium and the Pediatric Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Consortium
Pulsipher MA, Lehmann LE, Bertuch AA, Sasa G, Olson T, Nakano T, Gilio A, Burroughs LM, Lipton JM, Huang JN, Dickerson K, Bertaina A, Zhuang C, Malsch M, Fleming M, Weller E, Shimamura A, Williams DA Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2020 Oct 67 -
Diagnosis and treatment of pediatric myelodysplastic syndromes: A survey of the North American Pediatric Aplastic Anemia Consortium
Nakano TA, Lau BW, Dickerson KE, Wlodarski M, Pollard J, Shimamura A, Hofmann I, Sasa G, Elghetany T, Cada M, Dror Y, Ding H, Allen SW, Hanna R, Campbell K, Olson TS Pediatric Blood and Cancer 2020 Oct 67 -
Connecting the Dots from Fever of Unknown Origin to Myelodysplastic Syndrome: GATA2 Haploinsufficiency
Montiel-Esparza R, Reys B, Rogers ZR, Evans AS, Wysocki CA, Timmons C, Dickerson KE Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 2020 Jul 42 e365-e368 -
Noncoding variants connect enhancer dysregulation with nuclear receptor signaling in hematopoietic malignancies
Li K, Zhang Y, Liu X, Liu Y, Gu Z, Cao H, Dickerson KE, Chen M, Chen W, Shao Z, Ni M, Xu J Cancer discovery 2020 May 10 724-745 -
Loss of EZH2 reprograms BCAA metabolism to drive leukemic transformation
Gu Z, Liu Y, Cai F, Patrick M, Zmajkovic J, Cao H, Zhang Y, Tasdogan A, Chen M, Qi L, Liu X, Li K, Lyu J, Dickerson KE, Chen W, Ni M, Merritt ME, Morrison SJ, Skoda RC, Deberardinis RJ, Xu J Cancer discovery 2019 9 1228-1247 -
In Situ Capture of Chromatin Interactions by Biotinylated dCas9
Liu X, Zhang Y, Chen Y, Li M, Zhou F, Li K, Cao H, Ni M, Liu Y, Gu Z, Dickerson KE, Xie S, Hon GC, Xuan Z, Zhang MQ, Shao Z, Xu J Cell 2017 Aug 170 1028-1043.e19 -
Regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis in erythropoiesis by mTORC1-mediated protein translation
Liu X, Zhang Y, Ni M, Cao H, Signer RA, Li D, Li M, Gu Z, Hu Z, Dickerson KE, Weinberg SE, Chandel NS, Deberardinis RJ, Zhou F, Shao Z, Xu J Nature cell biology 2017 May 19 626-638 -
Toward personalized therapy in AML: In vivo benefit of targeting aberrant epigenetics in MLL-PTD-associated AML
Bernot KM, Siebenaler RF, Whitman SP, Zorko NA, Marcucci GG, Santhanam R, Ahmed EH, Ngangana M, McConnell KK, Nemer JS, Brook DL, Kulp SK, Chen CS, Frankhouser D, Yan P, Bundschuh R, Zhang X, Dorrance AM, Dickerson KE, Jarjoura D, Blum W, Marcucci G, Caligiuri MA Leukemia 2013 Dec 27 2379-2382 -
Eradicating acute myeloid leukemia in a MllPTD/wt:Flt3ITD/wt murine model: A path to novel therapeutic approaches for human disease
Bernot KM, Nemer JS, Santhanam R, Liu S, Zorko NA, Whitman SP, Dickerson KE, Zhang M, Yang X, McConnell KK, Ahmed EH, Muñoz MR, Siebenaler RF, Marcucci GG, Mundy-Bosse BL, Brook DL, Garman S, Dorrance AM, Zhang X, Zhang J, Lee RJ, Blum W, Caligiuri MA, Marcucci G Blood 2013 Nov 122 3778-3783 -
Central Nervous System Imprinting of the G Protein Gsα and Its Role in Metabolic Regulation
Chen M, Wang J, Dickerson KE, Kelleher J, Xie T, Gupta D, Lai EW, Pacak K, Gavrilova O, Weinstein LS Cell Metabolism 2009 May 9 548-555 -
Gsα deficiency in skeletal muscle leads to reduced muscle mass, fiber-type switching, and glucose intolerance without insulin resistance or deficiency
Chen M, Feng HZ, Gupta D, Kelleher J, Dickerson KE, Wang J, Hunt D, Jou W, Gavrilova O, Jin JP, Weinstein LS American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology 2009 Apr 296 C930-C940
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Congenital and Acquired Pediatric Bone Marrow Failure
Research
- Myelodysplastic syndrome
- Malignant transformation in inherited bone marrow failure (BMF) syndromes
- Acute myelogenous leukemia
- Epigenetics
- Myeloproliferative disorders