Stephanie Halene, MD, PhD
Hematology & Oncology
Telehealth is available
Patient type treated
Adult
Accepting new patients
No
Referral required
From physicians only
Titles
- Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology)
- Chief, Hematology
- Director, DeLuca Center for Innovation in Hematology Research, Yale Cancer Center
- Assistant Medical Director CRSL, Yale Cancer Center
Education & Training
- FellowYale University School of Medicine (2006)
- ResidentYale-New Haven Hospital (2002)
- PhDEberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (1997)
- ResidentEberhard-Karls-University (1997)
- MDEberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (1995)
Languages Spoken
- English
- Français (French)
- Deutsch (German)
- Italiano (Italian)
- Español (Spanish)
Additional Information
Honors & Recognitions
- Member: Interurban Clinical Club (2019)
- Sir William Osler Young Investigator Award: Interurban Clinical Club (2015)
- Career Development Award: Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (2010)
- T32 Research Fellow: NIH (2003)
- Scholarship: American Heart Association (1993)
- Scholar: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (1990)
- Scholar: Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (1988)
Professional Service
- University of New Haven (2021 - Present): Board Member
- Music Haven. A non-profit organization providing free string instrument lesson and music education to children in New Haven Public Schools (http://musichavenct.org) (2014 - Present): Member, Board of Directors
Publications
- Gu SX, Tyagi T, Jain K, Gu VW, Lee SH, Hwa JM, Kwan JM, Krause DS, Lee AI, Halene S, Martin KA, Chun HJ, Hwa J. Thrombocytopathy and endotheliopathy: crucial contributors to COVID-19 thromboinflammation. Nature Reviews. Cardiology 2021, 18:194-209.
- Halene S, Prebet T. Editorial: Do not lose focus on myeloid biology in the era of COVID-19. Current Opinion In Hematology 2021, 28:71-72.
- Meizlish ML, Pine AB, Bishai JD, Goshua G, Nadelmann ER, Simonov M, Chang CH, Zhang H, Shallow M, Bahel P, Owusu K, Yamamoto Y, Arora T, Atri DS, Patel A, Gbyli R, Kwan J, Won CH, Dela Cruz C, Price C, Koff J, King BA, Rinder HM, Wilson FP, Hwa J, Halene S, Damsky W, van Dijk D, Lee AI, Chun HJ. A neutrophil activation signature predicts critical illness and mortality in COVID-19. Blood Advances 2021, 5:1164-1177.
- Song Y, Shan L, Gbyli R, Liu W, Strowig T, Patel A, Fu X, Wang X, Xu ML, Gao Y, Qin A, Bruscia EM, Tebaldi T, Biancon G, Mamillapalli P, Urbonas D, Eynon E, Gonzalez DG, Chen J, Krause DS, Alderman J, Halene S, Flavell RA. Combined liver-cytokine humanization comes to the rescue of circulating human red blood cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2021, 371:1019-1025.
- Song Y, Gbyli R, Fu X, Halene S. Functional Analysis of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells In Vivo in Humanized Mice. Methods In Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2020, 2097:273-289.
- Gbyli R, Song Y, Halene S. Humanized mice as preclinical models for myeloid malignancies. Biochemical Pharmacology 2020, 174:113794.
- Gao Y, Vasic R, Song Y, Teng R, Liu C, Gbyli R, Biancon G, Nelakanti R, Lobben K, Kudo E, Liu W, Ardasheva A, Fu X, Wang X, Joshi P, Lee V, Dura B, Viero G, Iwasaki A, Fan R, Xiao A, Flavell RA, Li HB, Tebaldi T, Halene S. m6A Modification Prevents Formation of Endogenous Double-Stranded RNAs and Deleterious Innate Immune Responses during Hematopoietic Development. Immunity 2020, 52:1007-1021.e8.
- Goshua G, Pine AB, Meizlish ML, Chang CH, Zhang H, Bahel P, Baluha A, Bar N, Bona RD, Burns AJ, Dela Cruz CS, Dumont A, Halene S, Hwa J, Koff J, Menninger H, Neparidze N, Price C, Siner JM, Tormey C, Rinder HM, Chun HJ, Lee AI. Endotheliopathy in COVID-19-associated coagulopathy: evidence from a single-centre, cross-sectional study. The Lancet. Haematology 2020, 7:e575-e582.
- Taylor J, Mi X, North KD, Binder M, Penson A, Lasho TL, Knorr K, Haddadin M, Liu B, Pangallo J, Benbarche S, Wiseman DH, Tefferi A, Halene S, Liang Y, Patnaik MM, Bradley RK, Abdel-Wahab O. Single-cell genomics reveals the genetic and molecular bases for escape from mutational epistasis in myeloid neoplasms. Blood 2020, 136:1477-1486.
- Meizlish ML, Pine AB, Bishai JD, Goshua G, Nadelmann ER, Simonov M, Chang CH, Zhang H, Shallow M, Bahel P, Owusu K, Yamamoto Y, Arora T, Atri DS, Patel A, Gbyli R, Kwan J, Won CH, Dela Cruz C, Price C, Koff J, King BA, Rinder HM, Wilson FP, Hwa J, Halene S, Damsky W, van Dijk D, Lee AI, Chun H. A neutrophil activation signature predicts critical illness and mortality in COVID-19. MedRxiv : The Preprint Server For Health Sciences 2020.
- Liu Y, Yang M, Deng Y, Su G, Enninful A, Guo CC, Tebaldi T, Zhang D, Kim D, Bai Z, Norris E, Pan A, Li J, Xiao Y, Halene S, Fan R. High-Spatial-Resolution Multi-Omics Sequencing via Deterministic Barcoding in Tissue. Cell 2020, 183:1665-1681.e18.
- Pine AB, Meizlish ML, Goshua G, Chang CH, Zhang H, Bishai J, Bahel P, Patel A, Gbyli R, Kwan JM, Won CH, Price C, Dela Cruz CS, Halene S, van Dijk D, Hwa J, Lee AI, Chun HJ. Circulating markers of angiogenesis and endotheliopathy in COVID-19. Pulmonary Circulation 2020, 10:2045894020966547.
- Song Y, Rongvaux A, Taylor A, Jiang T, Tebaldi T, Balasubramanian K, Bagale A, Terzi YK, Gbyli R, Wang X, Fu X, Gao Y, Zhao J, Podoltsev N, Xu M, Neparidze N, Wong E, Torres R, Bruscia EM, Kluger Y, Manz MG, Flavell RA, Halene S. A highly efficient and faithful MDS patient-derived xenotransplantation model for pre-clinical studies. Nature Communications 2019, 10:366.
- Liang Y, Tebaldi T, Rejeski K, Joshi P, Stefani G, Taylor A, Song Y, Vasic R, Maziarz J, Balasubramanian K, Ardasheva A, Ding A, Quattrone A, Halene S. SRSF2 mutations drive oncogenesis by activating a global program of aberrant alternative splicing in hematopoietic cells. Leukemia 2018, 32:2659-2671.
- Sulkowski PL, Corso CD, Robinson ND, Scanlon SE, Purshouse KR, Bai H, Liu Y, Sundaram RK, Hegan DC, Fons NR, Breuer GA, Song Y, Mishra-Gorur K, De Feyter HM, de Graaf RA, Surovtseva YV, Kachman M, Halene S, Günel M, Glazer PM, Bindra RS. 2-Hydroxyglutarate produced by neomorphic IDH mutations suppresses homologous recombination and induces PARP inhibitor sensitivity. Science Translational Medicine 2017, 9.
- Joshi P, Halene S, Abdel-Wahab O. How do messenger RNA splicing alterations drive myelodysplasia? Blood 2017, 129:2465-2470.
- Yang J, Tanaka Y, Seay M, Li Z, Jin J, Garmire LX, Zhu X, Taylor A, Li W, Euskirchen G, Halene S, Kluger Y, Snyder MP, Park IH, Pan X, Weissman SM. Single cell transcriptomics reveals unanticipated features of early hematopoietic precursors. Nucleic Acids Research 2017, 45:1281-1296.
- Saito Y, Ellegast JM, Rafiei A, Song Y, Kull D, Heikenwalder M, Rongvaux A, Halene S, Flavell RA, Manz MG. Peripheral blood CD34+ cells efficiently engraft human cytokine knock-in mice. Blood 2016, 128:1829-1833.
- Taylor A, Halene S. The regulatory role of serum response factor pathway in neutrophil inflammatory response. Current Opinion In Hematology 2015, 22:67-73.
- Kim E, Ilagan JO, Liang Y, Daubner GM, Lee SC, Ramakrishnan A, Li Y, Chung YR, Micol JB, Murphy ME, Cho H, Kim MK, Zebari AS, Aumann S, Park CY, Buonamici S, Smith PG, Deeg HJ, Lobry C, Aifantis I, Modis Y, Allain FH, Halene S, Bradley RK, Abdel-Wahab O. SRSF2 Mutations Contribute to Myelodysplasia by Mutant-Specific Effects on Exon Recognition. Cancer Cell 2015, 27:617-30.
- Rongvaux A, Willinger T, Martinek J, Strowig T, Gearty SV, Teichmann LL, Saito Y, Marches F, Halene S, Palucka AK, Manz MG, Flavell RA. Development and function of human innate immune cells in a humanized mouse model. Nature Biotechnology 2014, 32:364-72.
- Taylor A, Tang W, Bruscia EM, Zhang PX, Lin A, Gaines P, Wu D, Halene S. SRF is required for neutrophil migration in response to inflammation. Blood 2014, 123:3027-36.
- Halene S, Gao Y, Hahn K, Massaro S, Italiano JE, Schulz V, Lin S, Kupfer GM, Krause DS. Serum response factor is an essential transcription factor in megakaryocytic maturation. Blood 2010, 116:1942-50.
- Halene S, Gaines P, Sun H, Zibello T, Lin S, Khanna-Gupta A, Williams SC, Perkins A, Krause D, Berliner N. C/EBPepsilon directs granulocytic-vs-monocytic lineage determination and confers chemotactic function via Hlx. Experimental Hematology 2010, 38:90-103.
- Halene S, Kohn DB. Gene therapy using hematopoietic stem cells: Sisyphus approaches the crest. Human Gene Therapy 2000, 11:1259-67.
- Halene S, Wang L, Cooper RM, Bockstoce DC, Robbins PB, Kohn DB. Improved expression in hematopoietic and lymphoid cells in mice after transplantation of bone marrow transduced with a modified retroviral vector. Blood 1999, 94:3349-57.
Patient Care Organizations
Titles
- Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology)
- Chief, Hematology
- Director, DeLuca Center for Innovation in Hematology Research, Yale Cancer Center
- Assistant Medical Director CRSL, Yale Cancer Center
Education & Training
- FellowYale University School of Medicine (2006)
- ResidentYale-New Haven Hospital (2002)
- PhDEberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (1997)
- ResidentEberhard-Karls-University (1997)
- MDEberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen (1995)
Languages Spoken
- English
- Français (French)
- Deutsch (German)
- Italiano (Italian)
- Español (Spanish)
Additional Information
Honors & Recognitions
- Member: Interurban Clinical Club (2019)
- Sir William Osler Young Investigator Award: Interurban Clinical Club (2015)
- Career Development Award: Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (2010)
- T32 Research Fellow: NIH (2003)
- Scholarship: American Heart Association (1993)
- Scholar: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (1990)
- Scholar: Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (1988)
Professional Service
- University of New Haven (2021 - Present): Board Member
- Music Haven. A non-profit organization providing free string instrument lesson and music education to children in New Haven Public Schools (http://musichavenct.org) (2014 - Present): Member, Board of Directors
Publications
- Gu SX, Tyagi T, Jain K, Gu VW, Lee SH, Hwa JM, Kwan JM, Krause DS, Lee AI, Halene S, Martin KA, Chun HJ, Hwa J. Thrombocytopathy and endotheliopathy: crucial contributors to COVID-19 thromboinflammation. Nature Reviews. Cardiology 2021, 18:194-209.
- Halene S, Prebet T. Editorial: Do not lose focus on myeloid biology in the era of COVID-19. Current Opinion In Hematology 2021, 28:71-72.
- Meizlish ML, Pine AB, Bishai JD, Goshua G, Nadelmann ER, Simonov M, Chang CH, Zhang H, Shallow M, Bahel P, Owusu K, Yamamoto Y, Arora T, Atri DS, Patel A, Gbyli R, Kwan J, Won CH, Dela Cruz C, Price C, Koff J, King BA, Rinder HM, Wilson FP, Hwa J, Halene S, Damsky W, van Dijk D, Lee AI, Chun HJ. A neutrophil activation signature predicts critical illness and mortality in COVID-19. Blood Advances 2021, 5:1164-1177.
- Song Y, Shan L, Gbyli R, Liu W, Strowig T, Patel A, Fu X, Wang X, Xu ML, Gao Y, Qin A, Bruscia EM, Tebaldi T, Biancon G, Mamillapalli P, Urbonas D, Eynon E, Gonzalez DG, Chen J, Krause DS, Alderman J, Halene S, Flavell RA. Combined liver-cytokine humanization comes to the rescue of circulating human red blood cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2021, 371:1019-1025.
- Song Y, Gbyli R, Fu X, Halene S. Functional Analysis of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells In Vivo in Humanized Mice. Methods In Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2020, 2097:273-289.
- Gbyli R, Song Y, Halene S. Humanized mice as preclinical models for myeloid malignancies. Biochemical Pharmacology 2020, 174:113794.
- Gao Y, Vasic R, Song Y, Teng R, Liu C, Gbyli R, Biancon G, Nelakanti R, Lobben K, Kudo E, Liu W, Ardasheva A, Fu X, Wang X, Joshi P, Lee V, Dura B, Viero G, Iwasaki A, Fan R, Xiao A, Flavell RA, Li HB, Tebaldi T, Halene S. m6A Modification Prevents Formation of Endogenous Double-Stranded RNAs and Deleterious Innate Immune Responses during Hematopoietic Development. Immunity 2020, 52:1007-1021.e8.
- Goshua G, Pine AB, Meizlish ML, Chang CH, Zhang H, Bahel P, Baluha A, Bar N, Bona RD, Burns AJ, Dela Cruz CS, Dumont A, Halene S, Hwa J, Koff J, Menninger H, Neparidze N, Price C, Siner JM, Tormey C, Rinder HM, Chun HJ, Lee AI. Endotheliopathy in COVID-19-associated coagulopathy: evidence from a single-centre, cross-sectional study. The Lancet. Haematology 2020, 7:e575-e582.
- Taylor J, Mi X, North KD, Binder M, Penson A, Lasho TL, Knorr K, Haddadin M, Liu B, Pangallo J, Benbarche S, Wiseman DH, Tefferi A, Halene S, Liang Y, Patnaik MM, Bradley RK, Abdel-Wahab O. Single-cell genomics reveals the genetic and molecular bases for escape from mutational epistasis in myeloid neoplasms. Blood 2020, 136:1477-1486.
- Meizlish ML, Pine AB, Bishai JD, Goshua G, Nadelmann ER, Simonov M, Chang CH, Zhang H, Shallow M, Bahel P, Owusu K, Yamamoto Y, Arora T, Atri DS, Patel A, Gbyli R, Kwan J, Won CH, Dela Cruz C, Price C, Koff J, King BA, Rinder HM, Wilson FP, Hwa J, Halene S, Damsky W, van Dijk D, Lee AI, Chun H. A neutrophil activation signature predicts critical illness and mortality in COVID-19. MedRxiv : The Preprint Server For Health Sciences 2020.
- Liu Y, Yang M, Deng Y, Su G, Enninful A, Guo CC, Tebaldi T, Zhang D, Kim D, Bai Z, Norris E, Pan A, Li J, Xiao Y, Halene S, Fan R. High-Spatial-Resolution Multi-Omics Sequencing via Deterministic Barcoding in Tissue. Cell 2020, 183:1665-1681.e18.
- Pine AB, Meizlish ML, Goshua G, Chang CH, Zhang H, Bishai J, Bahel P, Patel A, Gbyli R, Kwan JM, Won CH, Price C, Dela Cruz CS, Halene S, van Dijk D, Hwa J, Lee AI, Chun HJ. Circulating markers of angiogenesis and endotheliopathy in COVID-19. Pulmonary Circulation 2020, 10:2045894020966547.
- Song Y, Rongvaux A, Taylor A, Jiang T, Tebaldi T, Balasubramanian K, Bagale A, Terzi YK, Gbyli R, Wang X, Fu X, Gao Y, Zhao J, Podoltsev N, Xu M, Neparidze N, Wong E, Torres R, Bruscia EM, Kluger Y, Manz MG, Flavell RA, Halene S. A highly efficient and faithful MDS patient-derived xenotransplantation model for pre-clinical studies. Nature Communications 2019, 10:366.
- Liang Y, Tebaldi T, Rejeski K, Joshi P, Stefani G, Taylor A, Song Y, Vasic R, Maziarz J, Balasubramanian K, Ardasheva A, Ding A, Quattrone A, Halene S. SRSF2 mutations drive oncogenesis by activating a global program of aberrant alternative splicing in hematopoietic cells. Leukemia 2018, 32:2659-2671.
- Sulkowski PL, Corso CD, Robinson ND, Scanlon SE, Purshouse KR, Bai H, Liu Y, Sundaram RK, Hegan DC, Fons NR, Breuer GA, Song Y, Mishra-Gorur K, De Feyter HM, de Graaf RA, Surovtseva YV, Kachman M, Halene S, Günel M, Glazer PM, Bindra RS. 2-Hydroxyglutarate produced by neomorphic IDH mutations suppresses homologous recombination and induces PARP inhibitor sensitivity. Science Translational Medicine 2017, 9.
- Joshi P, Halene S, Abdel-Wahab O. How do messenger RNA splicing alterations drive myelodysplasia? Blood 2017, 129:2465-2470.
- Yang J, Tanaka Y, Seay M, Li Z, Jin J, Garmire LX, Zhu X, Taylor A, Li W, Euskirchen G, Halene S, Kluger Y, Snyder MP, Park IH, Pan X, Weissman SM. Single cell transcriptomics reveals unanticipated features of early hematopoietic precursors. Nucleic Acids Research 2017, 45:1281-1296.
- Saito Y, Ellegast JM, Rafiei A, Song Y, Kull D, Heikenwalder M, Rongvaux A, Halene S, Flavell RA, Manz MG. Peripheral blood CD34+ cells efficiently engraft human cytokine knock-in mice. Blood 2016, 128:1829-1833.
- Taylor A, Halene S. The regulatory role of serum response factor pathway in neutrophil inflammatory response. Current Opinion In Hematology 2015, 22:67-73.
- Kim E, Ilagan JO, Liang Y, Daubner GM, Lee SC, Ramakrishnan A, Li Y, Chung YR, Micol JB, Murphy ME, Cho H, Kim MK, Zebari AS, Aumann S, Park CY, Buonamici S, Smith PG, Deeg HJ, Lobry C, Aifantis I, Modis Y, Allain FH, Halene S, Bradley RK, Abdel-Wahab O. SRSF2 Mutations Contribute to Myelodysplasia by Mutant-Specific Effects on Exon Recognition. Cancer Cell 2015, 27:617-30.
- Rongvaux A, Willinger T, Martinek J, Strowig T, Gearty SV, Teichmann LL, Saito Y, Marches F, Halene S, Palucka AK, Manz MG, Flavell RA. Development and function of human innate immune cells in a humanized mouse model. Nature Biotechnology 2014, 32:364-72.
- Taylor A, Tang W, Bruscia EM, Zhang PX, Lin A, Gaines P, Wu D, Halene S. SRF is required for neutrophil migration in response to inflammation. Blood 2014, 123:3027-36.
- Halene S, Gao Y, Hahn K, Massaro S, Italiano JE, Schulz V, Lin S, Kupfer GM, Krause DS. Serum response factor is an essential transcription factor in megakaryocytic maturation. Blood 2010, 116:1942-50.
- Halene S, Gaines P, Sun H, Zibello T, Lin S, Khanna-Gupta A, Williams SC, Perkins A, Krause D, Berliner N. C/EBPepsilon directs granulocytic-vs-monocytic lineage determination and confers chemotactic function via Hlx. Experimental Hematology 2010, 38:90-103.
- Halene S, Kohn DB. Gene therapy using hematopoietic stem cells: Sisyphus approaches the crest. Human Gene Therapy 2000, 11:1259-67.
- Halene S, Wang L, Cooper RM, Bockstoce DC, Robbins PB, Kohn DB. Improved expression in hematopoietic and lymphoid cells in mice after transplantation of bone marrow transduced with a modified retroviral vector. Blood 1999, 94:3349-57.
Patient Care Organizations