Dr. Uckelmann is studying how nucleophosmin mutations in acute myeloid leukemia lead to epigenetic changes that shift pre-leukemic and leukemic cells to a dependency on the histone methyl transferase, MLL1, and its adaptor protein, Menin and how this dependency can be exploited in treatment strategies.
published research
Uckelmann HJ, Haarer EL, Takeda R, Wong EM, Hatton C, Marinaccio C, Perner F, Rajput M, Antonissen NJC, Wen Y, Yang L, Brunetti L, Chen CW, Armstrong SA. Mutant NPM1 Directly Regulates Oncogenic Transcription in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Cancer Discov. 2023.
Heikamp EB, Henrich JA, Perner F, Wong EM, Hatton C, Wen Y, Barwe SP, Gopalakrishnapillai A, Xu H, Uckelmann HJ, Takao S, Kazansky Y, Pikman Y, McGeehan GM, Kolb EA, Kentsis A, Armstrong SA. The menin-MLL1 interaction is a molecular dependency in NUP98-rearranged AML. Blood. 2022.
Hernández-Malmierca P, Vonficht D, Schnell A, Uckelmann HJ, Bollhagen A, Mahmoud MAA, Landua SL, van der Salm E, Trautmann CL, Raffel S, Grünschläger F, Lutz R, Ghosh M, Renders S, Correia N, Donato E, Dixon KO, Hirche C, Andresen C, Robens C, Werner PS, Boch T, Eisel D, Osen W, Pilz F, Przybylla A, Klein C, Buchholz F, Milsom MD, Essers MAG, Eichmüller SB, Hofmann WK, Nowak D, Hübschmann D, Hundemer M, Thiede C, Bullinger L, Müller-Tidow C, Armstrong SA, Trumpp A, Kuchroo VK, Haas S. Antigen presentation safeguards the integrity of the hematopoietic stem cell pool. Cell Stem Cell. 2022.