Gender	Female
E-mail	vesna.najfeld@mssm.edu
Education and Training	Ph.D., The Royal Marsden Hospital,
	Masters, University of East Anglia
	B.Sc., University of Beograd
Awards	1975 - 1977 Center for Inherited Diseases Fellowship National Institutes of Health
	1973 - 1975 Ph.D. Grant The Royal Marsden Hospital & The Institute for Cancer Research
	1971 - 1975 Leo Baeck Foundation Scholarship
	1970 - 1973 Anglo-Jewish Associations Scholarship

Committees and Professional Service
1995-1999 Member, Scientific Subcommittee on Neoplasia, The American Society of Hematology
1997 Chair, Scientific Subcommittee on Neoplasia. Organized Symposium 'Clonal Origin of Leukemia-Revisited' at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting.
1993-2000 Program Organizer, Secretary Treasurer, Vice President, and President, New York Society for the Study of Blood, Inc.
1997 Invited by the American Society of Hematology for Meet-the-Expert Session: 'Chromosomal Rearrangements and Clonal Origin of Leukemia'
1997 Journal of Leukemia, Member, Editorial Board
1997 and 1998 Department of Health and Human Services, NIH: Member of SBIR/STTR Molecular Genetics Study Section

Selected Invited Lectureship 1998-2000
Columbia University, New York University, National Cancer Institute, Montefiore Medical Center, the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Thilov Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, the Argentinian Hematology Association, Mar Del Plata, Argentina, the University of Perugia, Italy.

Professional Societies
The American Society for Human Genetics
The American Society of Hematology
The Society of the Study of Blood
The New York Cancer Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Reviewer for: Blood; American Journal of Hematology; Cancer; Cancer Investigation; Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics; Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer; Bone Marrow Transplantation; Leukemia;American Journal of Human Genetics

Education and Training	Ph.D., The Royal Marsden Hospital,
	Masters, University of East Anglia
	B.Sc., University of Beograd

Chromosomal and gene alterations in the process of neoplastic development
The role of chromosomal and gene alterations in the process of neoplastic development; identification, characterization and clinical application of genomic rearrangements in leukemic cells; chromosomal localization of single copy genes; techniques for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH); multistep pathogenesis and clonal development of leukemia; FISH intracellular diagnosis of leukemia and related hematological disorders.

Najfeld V, Ballard SG, Menninger J, Ward DC, Bouhassira EE, Schwartz RS, Nagel RL, Rybicki AC. The gene for human erythrocyte protein 4.2 maps to chromosome 15q15. Am J Hum Genet 1992; 50: 71-75.

Najfeld V, Burnett W, Vlachos A, Scigliano E, Isola L, Fruchtman S. Interphase FISH analysis of sex mismatched BMT utilizing dual color XY probes. Bone Marrow Transplant 1997; 19: 829-834.

Najfeld V. FISHing among myeloproliferative disorders. Semin Hematol 1997; 34: 55-63.

Scaradavou A, Isola L, Rubinstein P, Galperin Y, Najfeld V, Berlin D, Gordon J, Weinberg R. A murine model for human cord blood transplantation: Near-term fetal and neonatal peripheral blood cells can achieve long-term bone marrow engraftment in sublethally irradiated adult recipients. Blood 1997; 89: 1089-1099.

Najfeld V, Geller M, Troy K, Scalise A. Late acquisition to the Ph chromosome and BCR-ABL fusion product in a patient with AML-M2 and t(8;21): cytogenetic and FISH evidence for a secondary event. Leukemia 1998; 12: 517-519.

Mahlknecht US, Najfeld V, Young S, Verdin E. Genomic organization and chromosomal location of the human histone deacetylase 3 gene. Genomics 1999; 56: 197-202.