
Corinne Linardic
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Speaker Affiliation
Corinne Linardic, M.D., Ph.D., Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Member, Duke Cancer Institute
Presentation: From Bone to Muscle: Dr. Kleinerman's influence on a career in childhood sarcoma Research
Biography
Dr. Linardic is a physician-scientist in the Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, NC. Her clinical and research interest is pediatric sarcomas, with focus on the skeletal muscle cancer rhabdomyosarcoma. Dr. Linardic received her M.D., Ph.D., from Duke University School of Medicine, then completed pediatric residency training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). After pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship training spanning CHOP and Duke, she joined the faculty at Duke. In addition to caring for pediatric hematology-oncology patients, she leads a basic science-translational lab and teaches and mentors trainees ranging from undergraduates to post-doctoral scientists affiliated with the Pharmacology & Cancer Biology Department and graduate training umbrella programs. She especially enjoys her work with the Children’s Oncology Group, the trans-Atlantic INSTRuCT Soft Tissue Sarcoma Consortium, NCI-supported inter-institutional efforts to target fusion oncoproteins in childhood cancers (FusOnC2 and TFCC) including the PAX3::FOXO1 fusion protein, and her collaborations with other rhabdomyosarcoma experts around the world. Her partnerships with patient advocacy groups are especially meaningful to her. Dr. Linardic is married to Dr. Edward Patz Jr., a thoracic radiologist with expertise in lung cancer and immuno-oncology, and they have two children, Chloe and Oliver. When she has a spare moment, Dr. Linardic’s other interests include travel, the Silk Road, and ancient DNA.