Jennifer J. Chia, M.D., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Training Program Alumnus
Research Areas
Jennifer J. Chia, M.D., Ph.D., is a hematopathologist-scientist who studies how immune dysfunction impacts blood cell development. Her research focuses on how chronic inflammation regulates blood stem cells and their bone marrow niches, with the goal of improving blood cell production and developing new treatments for blood disorders.
As a hematopathologist, Chia diagnoses benign and malignant blood disorders while leading a research program focused on how immune signaling regulates blood cell production in health and disease. Using a combination of experimental models and advanced computational approaches, Chia investigates how chronic immune dysfunction impacts blood stem cells and the cellular niches that support them. The ultimate goal of her research is to identify new therapeutic strategies that improve blood cell production in aging, in pediatric leukemia and myeloid neoplasia, and in recovery following life-saving cancer therapy.
Research Projects
- Investigating immune signaling in healthy blood stem cells and in leukemia stem cells
- Mapping trajectories of blood cell development using cellular signatures
- Exploring how aging and myeloid neoplasms impact the niche cells that support and direct blood cell production
- Determining how chronic and acute inflammation differentially affect the bone marrow
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Medical Board Certifications
- Hematopathology, American Board of Pathology, 2022
- Pathology-Anatomic, American Board of Pathology, 2021
Fellowship
- Hematopathology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 2022
Residency
- Anatomic Pathology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 2021
Degrees
- M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College, 2018
- Ph.D., Immunology Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, 2016
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