Stefanie Sarantopoulos, MD, PhD, received her degrees from Boston University School of Medicine and completed postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in hematology and oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Before joining the UNC faculty in June 2009, she served as an instructor at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician in the Bone Marrow Transplant group at Dana-Farber. “The collaborative energy of UNC is palpable and unique,” says Dr. Sarantopoulos. “Researchers and doctors are very willing to ‘put their heads together’ here to try to bring what they’re finding in the laboratory to clinical trials for patients.”

Dr. Sarantopoulos’ goal in the clinic and the lab is to "improve transplantation therapy by focusing on treating its side-effects, so that our patients are not only cured of their leukemia or lymphoma, but so they can also live better and longer."

Named the 2009 Amy Strelzer Manasevit Research Program Scholar by the Marrow Foundation® and the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP), she plans to develop targeted treatments for marrow transplant patients whose donor cells attack their own cells in a process called graft versus host disease. 

Dr. Sarantopoulos sees patients requiring treatment for leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and other hematolymphoid disorders in UNC Lineberger's Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program. Referrals can be made by calling Teresa Ball at 919-843-0600 or Pat Odell, at 919-966-6246.