Principle Investigator
Todd Bradley is the Director of Immunogenomics at the Genomic Medicine Center in Children’s Mercy Kansas City. He is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center and the University of Missouri Kansas City Medical School. He is also a member of the University of Kansas Cancer Center.
Dr. Bradley came to Children’s Mercy from Duke University where he was Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Viral Genetic Analysis at the Human Vaccine Institute where he established genomics technologies to study the immune response and participated in the development of HIV-1 vaccine candidates. Dr. Bradley earned his PhD in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from the University of Kansas Medical School where he worked at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research on regulatory mechanisms of gene expression and splicing.
Dr. Bradley is an expert in single-cell and cell population transcriptome and epigenomic study of the immune system, determining the B cell repertoire and antibody discovery.
The Research Team
Rebecca Mclennan — Research lab manager
Rebecca was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia. She has a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Genetics and Psychology, from the University of Adelaide, and a PhD in Biology from the University of Missouri. Prior to joining Dr Todd Bradley’s lab, Rebecca was a senior developmental biologist as well as lab manager in Dr. Paul Kulesa’s lab, at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, where she worked the molecular mechanisms driving embryonic cell migration.
Postdoctoral Research scholar
Elizabeth Fraley
Santosh Khanal —
Senior bioinformatic scientist
Santosh comes from the land of Himalayas, Nepal. He is responsible for analyzing large genomic datasets from immune cells in a variety of pediatric diseases. He has an MS in Bioinformatics from University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His interest lies in deciphering biological mysteries hidden within genomic data.
Eric Geanes —
research laboratory supervisor
Eric came to Children’s Mercy from The University of Kansas Medical Center where he was a Research Associate investigating drug resistance and survival mechanisms within triple negative breast cancer in the Lewis-Wambi Lab. Eric earned his Masters in Cell and Molecular Biology from The University of Missouri-Kansas City where he worked in Dr. Ted White’s lab studying drug resistance in pathogenic fungi.
Eric specializes in cell culture, qPCR, western blot analysis, and other molecular assays.
Cas lemaster —
research specialist
Cas received his undergraduate degree in Neurobiology from the University of Kansas and a MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Maryland. Before joining the Bradley Lab he worked in research positions involving nanotechnology, drug development, and microbiology, as well as industry positions involving cancer and plant genomics. He was previously the Laboratory Operations Manager for an agricultural genetics research company in Ontario Canada, where he lived in Niagara Falls.
Stephen Pierce — research assistant
Steve received his undergraduate degree in Microbiology from the University of Kansas in 2017. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant for 2 years in the Soares Lab at KUMC, where he assisted in generating and characterizing placentation in various mutant rat models. Steve plans on pursuing a PhD in Immunology, and is interested in investigating how NK cell function can be utilized in the development of new vaccines and therapies.