Courtney Jones, PHD

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital – Assistant Professor

Dr. Courtney Jones is an Assistant Professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Her lab studies acute myeloid leukemia, a devastating blood cancer characterized by poor patient outcomes. Not all cells within leukemia are created equally. A subset of cells called leukemia stem cells (LSCs) are capable of evading current therapies resulting in disease recurrence. Dr. Jones’s research is focused on identifying, characterizing, and targeting vulnerabilities of LSCs with the long-term goal of developing therapies that will improve patient outcomes.
Dr. Jones received her PhD from New York University with Dr. William Carroll where she studied therapy resistance in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She then completed her postdoctoral studies with Dr. Craig Jordan at the University of Colorado where she identified novel vulnerabilities of leukemia stem cells.