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Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Patience Odeniyide is a pediatric oncologist at the Johns Hopkins University Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research focuses on RAS-directed therapies for pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma, and her clinical expertise is in the treatment of pediatric solid tumors. Dr. Odeniyide received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her MD from Indiana University School of Medicine. She completed her general pediatric residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins/NIH Pediatric Oncology Branch Pediatric Hematology/Oncology joint fellowship training program in 2017. She completed her Ph.D. in cellular and molecular medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2022. Dr. Odeniyide aims to develop and implement novel molecularly targeted therapeutics to treat pediatric cancers with genetic alterations. Her research focuses on the application of small-molecule therapeutics for tumors with RAS mutations, a common cancer mutation for which few effective targeted therapies exist. Her goal is to develop more effective therapeutic options for pediatric sarcoma patients.
