Joshua Zeidner, MD

Dr. Zeidner's research interests include discovering innovative methods to improve outcomes, drug discovery and development, and designing clinical trials clinical trials: Clinical research is at the heart of all medical advances, identifying new ways to prevent, detect or treat disease. If you have a bone marrow failure disease, you may want to consider taking part in a clinical trial, also called a research study. Understanding Clinical Trials Clinical… in acute myeloid leukemia acute myeloid leukemia: (uh-KYOOT my-uh-LOYD loo-KEE-mee-uh) A cancer of the blood cells. It happens when very young white blood cells (blasts) in the bone marrow fail to mature. The blast cells stay in the bone marrow and become to numerous. This slows production of red blood cells and platelets. Some cases of MDS become… (AML) myelodysplastic syndromes myelodysplastic syndromes: (my-eh-lo-diss-PLASS-tik SIN-dromez) A group of disorders where the bone marrow does not work well, and the bone marrow cells fail to make enough healthy blood cells. Myelo refers to the bone marrow. Dysplastic means abnormal growth or development. People with MDS have low blood cell count for at… (MDS), and myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs).

He leads the Leukemia Clinical Trials Research Protocol Protocol: An action plan that describes what will be done in a clinical trial and how it will be carried out. This plan is reviewed and approved by a committee at each place doing the clinical trial. This committee is known as the Institutional Review Board. Office Disease (POD) Group where we have a multitude of cutting-edge clinical trials for acute leukemia, MDS, and MPNs. Dr. Zeidner's the Principal Investigator of industry-sponsored, investigator-initiated, and academic collaborative clinical trials evaluating novel agents in MDS and AML. His research focus encompasses drug development in two distinct pathways in AML: 1) cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors, and 2) innovative immunotherapeutic strategies.