Emily R. Theisen

Emily Theisen, PhD, is a principal investigator in the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases at The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor of pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Theisen earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and her PhD in pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. There she studied in the Center for Investigational Therapeutics at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, focusing on novel epigenetic targeted agents. She then trained with Dr. Stephen Lessnick in the Center for Childhood Cancer & Blood Diseases at Nationwide Children’s as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the faculty. Dr. Theisen has spent her career studying pharmacological modulation of chromatin regulators cancer, with a specific focus in pediatric malignancies.