


Dr. Vijay Sankaran, MD
Dr. Vijay Sankaran, MD is a pediatric hematologist oncologist in Boston, MA and has over 10 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from HARVARD Medical School in 2010. He is affiliated with medical facilities Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is accepting new patients.
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300 Longwood Ave Boston, MA 02115Biography
- Dr. Vijay Sankaran, MD
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- Areas of ExpertiseDr. Sankaran specializes in the areas of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology & Pediatrics. • See board certifications
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About Me
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Dr. Sankaran is a physician-scientist focused on caring for patients with non-malignant hematologic disorders with a special interest in diseases of red blood cell production and hemoglobin disorders. Dr. Sankaran's laboratory uses human genetics...read morePediatric Hematology & Oncology
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Harvard University / School Of Psychology
Medical SchoolDana-farber Cancer Institute/boston Children's Hospital, Pediatric Hematology/oncology
Fellowship Hospital, 2015Boston Children's Hospital/boston Medical Center, Pediatrics
Residency Hospital, 2013Harvard Medical School
Medical School, 2010
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Learn more about medical license public record checkHacking hematopoiesis - emerging tools for examining variant effects, 2023-02-24
Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing by ADAR1 is essential for normal murine erythropoiesis, 2016-07-01
A unified model of human hemoglobin switching through single-cell genome editing, 2021-08-17
Inherited Causes of Clonal Hematopoiesis in 97,691 TOPMed Whole Genomes, 2020-10-14
Developmental and species-divergent globin switching are driven by BCL11A, 2009-08-05
Advances in the understanding of haemoglobin switching, 2010-03-01
In The Blood: Connecting Variant to Function In Human Hematopoiesis, 2020-06-10
Interrogation of human hematopoiesis at single-cell and single-variant resolution, 2019-03-11
Shared and distinct genetic etiologies for different types of clonal hematopoiesis, 2023-09-08
Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation, 2022-06-06
Emerging Cellular and Gene Therapies for Congenital Anemias, 2016-10-28
Lineage Tracing In Humans Enabled By Mitochondrial Mutations And Single Cell Genomics, 2019-02-28
Calmodulin inhibitors improve erythropoiesis in Diamond-Blackfan anemia, 2020-10-21
The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases, 2020-09-03
Purifying Selection against Pathogenic Mitochondrial DNA in Human T Cells, 2020-08-12
Mapping Transcriptomic Vector Fields of Single Cells, 2022-02-01
The genetics of human hematopoiesis and its disruption in disease, 2019-07-17
Massively parallel single-cell mitochondrial DNA genotyping and chromatin profiling, 2020-08-12
Unraveling Hematopoiesis Through the Lens of Genomics, 2020-09-17
Structural variation across 138,134 samples in the TOPMed consortium, 2023-01-25
Cellular barcoding to decipher clonal dynamics in disease, 2022-10-14
Long-Term Patient-Customized Therapy for a PathogenicEPOMutation, 2020-11-09
Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation, 2022-01-24
Anemia: Progress in molecular mechanisms and therapy, 2015-05-29
Author Correction: Functional dissection of inherited non-coding variation influencing multiple myeloma risk, 2022-12-13
Transcriptional States and Chromatin Accessibility Underlying Human Erythropoiesis, 2019-06-11
Functional Selectivity in Cytokine Signaling Revealed Through a PathogenicEPOMutation, 2017-03-09
Structural variation across 138,134 samples in the TOPMed consortium, 2023-02-03
Regulation of the fetal hemoglobin silencing factor BCL11A, 2016-03-09
Infantile Myelofibrosis and Myeloproliferation with CDC42 Dysfunction, 2020-04-17
Advances in Understanding Erythropoiesis: Evolving Perspectives, 2016-02-05
Inherited myeloproliferative neoplasm risk impacts hematopoietic stem cells, 2020-10-14
Altered translation of GATA1 in Diamond-Blackfan anemia, 2014-06-22
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hospital awardsAmerica's 250 Best Hospitals Award™ (2025)
Top in the nation for overall patient experience based on nine measures related to doctor and nurse communication, hospital cleanliness and noise levels, and medication and post-discharge care instructions
View all awardsOutstanding Patient Experience Award™ (2024, 2023, 2022)
Top in the nation for overall patient experience based on nine measures related to doctor and nurse communication, hospital cleanliness and noise levels, and medication and post-discharge care instructions
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91%Patients said they were given information about recovering at home7% higher than the national average
84%Patients said that nurses always listened to them and explained things well9% higher than the national average
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