Bishop Lab Staff
Alex Bishop, DPhil
Director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research; Principal Investigator
Alex.Bishop@NationwideChildrens.org
Alex Bishop, DPhil, is the director of the Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Nationwide Children's and professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University. Dr. Bishop is a cancer biologist with longstanding interests in DNA damage response, genome stability, transcriptional regulation and R-loop biology. His research has increasingly focused on understanding the unusual biology of Ewing sarcoma and using those insights to identify new therapeutic vulnerabilities. Dr. Bishop also studies BRCA1 and NRF2 biology in breast cancer and the cellular consequences of ATM loss in Ataxia Telangiectasia. Dr. Bishop received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and completed postdoctoral training at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School. Before joining Nationwide Children's in 2025, Dr. Bishop was a professor at UT Health San Antonio, where he established his independent laboratory at the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute. He is particularly committed to training young scientists and helping trainees develop the independence and skills needed to pursue their own careers in research.
Shai Ben Eliyahu
Research Intern
Shai.BenEliyahu@nationwidechildrens.org
Jane Benoit, PhD
Postdoctoral Scientist
Jane.Benoit@nationwidechildrens.org
I am a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Bishop's lab where I study how fusion oncogenes disrupt gene regulation and RNA metabolism in pediatric cancers. I am especially interested in understanding the mechanisms underlying these processes in Ewing sarcoma with an aim to improving cancer therapies and patient outcomes. I obtained my PhD in molecular biology from Florida State University in 2025.
Raquel das Neves
Postdoctoral Scientist
Raquel.dasNeves@nationwidechildrens.org
Brycen Mickle
Research Intern
Brycen.Mickle@nationwidechildrens.org
Shreena Patel
Research Aide
Shreena.Patel@nationwidechildrens.org
Sushma Sappa
Postdoctoral Scientist
Sushma.Sappa@nationwidechildrens.org
Frances Schlueter
Research Intern
Frances.Schlueter@nationwidechildrens.org
Former lab members have continued their training and careers at a variety of institutions. Positions listed reflect where they went after leaving the lab and may have since changed.
Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellows
- Nicklas Bassani, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018–2024; joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in Austin, Texas, as a Scientist in 2025.
- Manish Parihar, PhD, Research Scientist, 2020–2022; continued as a Research Scientist in Manjeet Rao’s laboratory at UT Health San Antonio.
- July Carolina Romero, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015–2020; joined the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing as a Research Associate, subsequently became a Staff Fellow Principal Investigator at the FDA, and is currently Science Policy Director at the Alternatives Research & Development Foundation. Awarded a CPRIT Training Fellowship.
- Alfeu Zanotto-Filho, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013–2014; joined the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, as an Assistant Professor and subsequently became an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Awarded a DoD Breast Cancer Research Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (W81XWH-14-1-0026).
- Xavier Bernard, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012–2014; joined FIRALIS, France, as a Scientist.
- Subapriya Rajamanickam, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010–2012; continued as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Manjeet Rao’s laboratory at UT Health San Antonio.
- Ravi Dashnamoorthy, PhD, Instructor, 2008–2010; continued as an Assistant Professor at UMass Medical School and subsequently held faculty positions at Tufts University and Rutgers Cancer Institute before moving to Genosco.
Graduate Students
- Aiola Stoja, PhD, Graduate Student, 2021–2026; currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University. Awarded a Greehey Graduate Fellowship and an NIH/NCI EDGe T32 Predoctoral Fellowship (T32CA291696); selected to participate in the 2025 Duke Cancer Institute Invited Scholar Research Symposium.
- Pramiti Mukhopadhyay, PhD, Graduate Student, 2019–2024, and Bishop Lab Postdoctoral Fellow, January–May 2025; currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with John Krais at Washington University in St. Louis. Awarded a CPRIT Training Grant Predoctoral Fellowship.
- Kevin Kanda, PhD, Graduate Student, 2019–2024; currently an Associate Regulatory Writer at Eli Lilly and Company. Awarded a Mays Cancer Center Predoctoral Fellowship.
- Henry Miller, PhD, Graduate Student, 2019–2022; joined Altos Labs as a Computational Biologist. He is also Founder and President of the Bioinformatics Research Network. Awarded an NIH/NIA F31 Predoctoral Fellowship (F31AG072902), NIA T32 fellowship and a Greehey Graduate Predoctoral Fellowship.
- Liesl Lawrence, PhD, Graduate Student, 2016–2023; currently an Assistant Professor at Cairn University. Awarded a DoD Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program Horizon Award and an NCATS TL1 Predoctoral Training Fellowship, as well as the Rennels Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies and a Greehey Travel Award.
- Erin Sybouts, PhD, Graduate Student, 2015–2019; joined PreventionGenetics as an Associate Human Molecular Geneticist. Awarded Greehey Graduate Fellowships in 2015 and 2017 and a Greehey Travel Award in 2017.
- Lindsey Barron, PhD, Graduate Student, 2013–2016; continued as a Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Health San Antonio and subsequently became an Instructor at the University of the Incarnate Word. Awarded the Greg Treibs Memorial Scholarship.
- Sonal Tonapi, PhD, Graduate Student, 2011–2015; joined Caris Life Sciences as a Postdoctoral Researcher and is currently Associate Director at Nautilus Biotechnology in San Francisco, California. Awarded an NIH/NCI T32 Cancer Biology Predoctoral Fellowship, the Dean’s Excellence Award, and a Greehey Travel Scholarship; also received best oral presentation at the 2014 T32 retreat and best student poster at the 2014 CTRC retreat.
- Aparna Gorthi, PhD, Graduate Student, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Instructor, 2011–2021; joined AstraZeneca as a Senior Scientist and subsequently became Associate Director at Precede Biosciences. Awarded a Greehey Graduate Fellowship, CPRIT Predoctoral Training Fellowship, CTSA KL2 Training Fellowship, NIH/NCI T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship, and AACR-AstraZeneca START Award.
- Bijal Karia, PhD, Graduate Student, 2007–2013; continued as a Postdoctoral Fellow at UT Health San Antonio and subsequently became a Research Scientist at bioAffinity. Awarded a DoD Breast Cancer Research Program Predoctoral Traineeship Award (BC093931).
- Adam Brown, PhD, Graduate Student, 2007–2012; remained in the Bishop Lab for approximately one additional year to complete research and publications before joining Michael Kastan’s laboratory at Duke University as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Awarded an NIH/NIA Biology of Aging T32 Predoctoral Fellowship.
