Dr. Haydar Frangoul

Dr. Haydar Frangoul, MD, MS. is the Director of the Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant program at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute and Tristar Centennial Children's Hospital and in Nashville Tennessee. Dr Frangoul completed his MD degree at the American University of Beirut followed by Pediatric residency at Duke University. He then went to complete a fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Transplant at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. He was the Carolyn Perot Rathjen Endowed Professor of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Vanderbilt University until 2015 when he joined Sarah Cannon Research Institute to lead the Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Program.

Dr Frangoul had leadership positions in the Children Oncology group, and Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium. His primary interest is allogeneic stem cell transplant using an alternative donor sources especially for non-malignant diseases. Dr Frangoul has authored or co-authored more than 140 peer reviewed manuscripts. He has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences.  He is the lead investigator for the clinical trial using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing for patients with sickle cell disease.

Dr. Wan Yue

Yue Wan is the Deputy Executive Director of the Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR. She received her B.Sc in Cell Biology and Biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego. She obtained her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from Stanford University, USA, under the mentorship of Howard Y. Chang.  During her Ph.D., she developed the first high-throughput method for probing RNA structures genome-wide.  Yue is a recipient of the NSS-PhD scholarship from Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore.  She was a Society in Science- Branco Weiss Fellow, EMBO Young Investigator, and CIFAR-Azrieli Global Scholar. Yue is also a recipient of the Young Scientist Award and L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science, Singapore National Fellowship. Recently, Yue is also a participant of the international Welcome Leap RNA Readiness and Response program. Yue is interested in studying functional RNA structures and developing new versions of RNA as vaccines and therapeutics.