As a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Dr. Trump is responsible for deriving and characterizing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) from patients with a variety of hematological diseases. She has created several cell lines and is currently developing iPSC from patients affected with severe congenital neutropenia (SCN), a rare disease in which a lack of neutrophils in the blood stream lead to severe infections and, in some cases, myelodysplastic syndromes. She is studying disease progression promyelocytes and neutrophils differentiated from iPSC from several SCN patients and attempting repair genetic mutations in the SCN iPSC using genome editing technologies.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S., Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (2003)
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Developing novel culture systems for the recapitulation of physiological cell microenvironments, directed differentiation and maintenance of adult bone marrow stem cells and translational research
HONORS
Graduate College Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007)
USDA Agriculture Genome Sciences and Public Policy Fellow
Bronze Tablet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2003)
Gamma Sigma Delta Agricultural Honor Society (2002)
James Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999-2003)
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Junior Member of International Society of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
