Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
(University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
Randy Windreich
Dr. Randy Windreich graduated from the Scakler School of Medicine (Tel Aviv, Israel) where he earned his MD degree. He completed his Pediatrics residency at Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children (Falls Church, VA) and his Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellowship at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA) before joining the faculty at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, where he is currently the Clinical Director of the Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapies and an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. His clinical research interests focus on patients with high-risk leukemias and other malignancies undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and immunotherapy, including CAR T-cell therapy.
Archana Ramgopal
Archana Ramgopal is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in the division of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapies. Her research interests include the study of post-bone marrow transplant immune complications including graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), in patients with relapsed leukemia. She is currently exploring the role of cellular energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in human T cells, studies which could pave the way for modulating AMPK expression, which has implications in both CAR-T cell persistence and the prevention of GVHD. Clinically, Dr. Ramgopal has an interest in hematologic malignancies and cellular therapies directed at solid tumor cancers.
