Lab Members

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Shanthi Bhaskar

Shanthi Bhaskar is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Computational Biology. Shanthi works in the Bailey laboratory with Dr. Jessica Daley to investigate the role of TGF-beta on the immunobiology of Ewing tumors during radiation. Outside of science and school, Shanthi is an avid swimmer, basketball enthusiast, and enjoys spending […]

Elina-Mukherjee

Elina Mukherjee

Elina is the manager of the Bailey laboratory. Elina obtained her undergraduate degree from The University of Michigan. She holds a masters degree and is skilled in a wide range of in vitro and in vivo experimental techniques. She is an excellent teacher and the long-term heart of operations in the Bailey laboratory.

Carolina Tufino

Carolina Tufino

Carolina is a research technician in the Bailey laboratory. Carolina received a Bachelor Science degree in Biotechnology Engineering (2011) at Escuela Politécnica del Ejército in Ecuador. She holds a master’s degree in Biochemistry Engineering (2017) at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile. Tufino is a biotechnologist with over ten years of experience working with […]

Sreya Dey

Sreya Dey

Sreya is an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh studying neuroscience as a major and minoring in music. Sreya was awarded a 2022 Summer Research Internship Program position at the Rangos Research Facility at UPMC Children’s in the Bailey laboratory. She is a dedicated researcher and continues on in the lab since that time. Outside […]

Jessica Daley, MD

Jessica Daley, MD

Dr. Daley is a pediatric oncologist and junior faculty physician scientist with a focus on Ewing immunobiology and the role of radiation in modulating the Ewing tumor immune microenvironment. Dr. Daley is a CHP Scholars Program awardee and her long-term goal is to work as a physician scientist to improve outcomes for pediatric patients with […]

Michelle Roe, MD

Michelle Roe, MD

Michelle went to the University of Connecticut for her B.S. in Physiology & Neurobiology. Michelle’s close friend and family member was diagnosed with recurrent sarcoma during college, which inspired Michelle to spend more time learning about sarcoma and trying to find ways she might make any difference for patients suffering with this malignancy. After graduating, […]

Kelly Bailey

Kelly M. Bailey, MD, PhD

Dr. Kelly Bailey is a physician scientist in the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the UPMC Children’s hospital of Pittsburgh and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is the Co-Director of the Mario Lemieux Institute for Pediatric Cancer Research. Dr. Bailey received her undergraduate degree […]