Benjamin Stanton, PhD

• Center for Childhood Cancer
  Principal Investigator
• Hematology/Oncology & BMT
  Principal Investigator
• Stanton Lab
  Principal Investigator
• Primary Department
  Center for Childhood Cancer

• Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, Department of Pediatrics, 2020

Ben Stanton, PhD, is a Principal Investigator and Associate Professor with Tenure at the Center for Childhood Cancer at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Ben received his doctorate from Harvard University, and postdoctoral training at Stanford University School of Medicine and NIH. His group seeks to understand epigenetic driving mechanisms in health and disease. He is motivated to understand the essential chromatin regulatory processes in low mutational burden tumors. The lab’s main interests relate to (1) understanding mechanisms of chromatin activation in childhood cancer, (2) understanding how epigenetic repression influences genome organization, and (3) interdisciplinary approaches for new methods in systems epigenetics. Ben is excited about mentoring next-generation of scientist and for fundamental insights that enable translational advances.

Publications

Date of Appointment at Nationwide Children’s Hospital: 07/01/2019

U01 NCI NIH, Principal Investigator

07/03/2025 - 06/30/2029

St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant, Principal Investigator

07/01/2025 - 06/30/2027

American Cancer Society - Research Scholar Grant, Principal Investigator

07/01/2023 - 06/30/2027

R01 NIH NHLBI, Co-Investigator

07/01/2023 - 06/30/2028

T32 NIH NCI Fellowship Award, Other

Mentor; 07/01/2024 - 06/30/2026

CancerFree Kids grant, Other

Mentor; 01/01/2024 - 12/31/2024

St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant, Principal Investigator

07/01/2023 - 06/30/2024

R01 NIH NIGMS, Co-Investigator

02/03/2022 - 12/31/2026

St. Baldrick’s Foundation Career Development grant, Principal Investigator

07/01/2022 - 06/30/2023

St. Baldrick’s Foundation Career Development grant, Principal Investigator

07/01/2019 - 06/30/2022

Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation grant, Principal Investigator

01/01/2020 - 06/30/2022

Mark Foundation grant, Principal Investigator (multiple PI)

01/01/2021 - 06/01/2022

CancerFree Kids, Principal Investigator

01/01/2021 - 12/31/2022

NCH Grant, Principal Investigator (multiple PI)

01/01/2022 - 12/31/2022

Nationwide CCCR pilot project grant

NCH Grant, Principal Investigator (multiple PI)

01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021

Nationwide CCCR pilot project grant

Center for Childhood Cancer