Lukas D. Wartman, MD

Lukas D. Wartman, MD

Assistant Professor

Address:
Division of Oncology
Mail Stop 8056-0057-06
Washington University
660 South Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110

Room 628 Southwest Tower (office)
Room 626 Southwest Tower (lab)

Admin:
Shannon Dobbs
dobbss@wustl.edu

Clinical Interests
  • Leukemia
Research Interests
  • Leukemogenesis
  • Acute promeylocytic leukemia
  • Cancer genomics
  • Epigenetics
Research

Dr. Wartman led the study that sequenced the first mouse model of human cancer (a mouse model of APL developed in Timothy Ley’s Lab). He recently started his own lab, which is extending the findings from that study to more than 100 banked tumors from the same model. He is studying the role of loss of function mutations in Kdm6a, a histone H3K27 demethylase, in the role of AML and cancer pathogenesis. He is also an active member of The Genome Institute at Washington University where he serves as Assistant Director of the Cancer Genomics Section. In this regard, his research interest is in using ChIP-Seq to define epigenetic changes in cancer. Clinically, Dr. Wartman treats leukemia and bone marrow transplant patients and is involved in making clinical sequencing available for cancer patients treated at the Siteman Cancer Center.

Profiles (publications)

Biosketch

Education

  • 2005-1999: MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
  • 1998-1995: BS with Honors in Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Post-Graduate Training

  • 2011-2008 Research Hematology/Oncology Fellow (laboratory of Dr. Timothy Ley), Stem Cell Biology Section, Washington University School of Medicine
  • 2008-2007 Clinical Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine
  • 2007-2005 Internal Medicine Resident, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine
  • 2005-2004: Research Assistant (laboratory of Dr. Stuart Kornfeld), Division of Hematology, Washington University School of Medicine

Academic Positions & Employment

  • present-2013: Assistant Professor, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
  • present-2013: Assistant Director, Cancer Genomics, McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University
  • 2013-2011: Instructor, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine
  • 2013-2008: Bone Marrow Transplant Gold Physician, Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Board Certification

  • 2014: Medical Oncology
  • 2012: Internal Medicine

Honors & Awards

  • 2012-2010: National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program Award
  • 2010: Fellows’ Award from Mayo Clinic Hematology/Oncology Review
  • 2009: Knowlton Award for Clinical Excellence
  • 2003: The Park J. White Prize in Medical Ethics
  • 2003-1999: Albert F. Koetter, MD Distinguished Student Scholarship
  • 2002: Alpha Omega Alpha
  • 2002: McGraw-Hill and Appleton and Lange Medical Publications Student Award
  • 2002: Lee B. & Virginia G. Harrison Memorial Scholar

Professional Societies & Organizations

  • present-2016: American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  • present-2007: American Society of Hematology
  • present-2007: American Society of Clinical Oncology