Richard Alexander Voit, MD
Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist
Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2014)
- Residency
- Boston Children's Hospital/Boston Medical Center (2017), Pediatrics
- Fellowship
- Dana-Farber/Boston Children's (2020), Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
- Graduate School
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2014)
- Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics/Hematology-Oncology
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Gene therapy
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Publications
- Gene therapy for congenital marrow failure syndromes - no longer grasping at straws? Voit RA, Corey SJ, Haematologica 2023 Nov 108 11 2880-2882
- MECOM Deficiency: from Bone Marrow Failure to Impaired B-Cell Development. Voit RA, Sankaran VG, Journal of clinical immunology 2023 Aug 43 6 1052-1066
- CD11c regulates neutrophil maturation. Hou L, Voit RA, Shibamura-Fujiogi M, Koutsogiannaki S, Li Y, Chen Y, Luo H, Sankaran VG, Yuki K, Blood advances 2023 Apr 7 7 1312-1325
- A genetic disorder reveals a hematopoietic stem cell regulatory network co-opted in leukemia. Voit RA, Tao L, Yu F, Cato LD, Cohen B, Fleming TJ, Antoszewski M, Liao X, Fiorini C, Nandakumar SK, Wahlster L, Teichert K, Regev A, Sankaran VG, Nature immunology 2023 Jan 24 1 69-83
- Multi-omics on our multitudes. Voit RA, Sankaran VG, Nature genetics 2022 Oct 54 10 1449-1450
- Pathogenic BCL11A variants provide insights into the mechanisms of human fetal hemoglobin silencing. Shen Y, Li R, Teichert K, Montbleau KE, Verboon JM, Voit RA, Sankaran VG, PLoS genetics 2021 Oct 17 10 e1009835
- A unified model of human hemoglobin switching through single-cell genome editing. Shen Y, Verboon JM, Zhang Y, Liu N, Kim YJ, Marglous S, Nandakumar SK, Voit RA, Fiorini C, Ejaz A, Basak A, Orkin SH, Xu J, Sankaran VG, Nature communications 2021 Aug 12 1 4991
- Familial thrombocytopenia due to a complex structural variant resulting in a WAC-ANKRD26 fusion transcript. Wahlster L, Verboon JM, Ludwig LS, Black SC, Luo W, Garg K, Voit RA, Collins RL, Garimella K, Costello M, Chao KR, Goodrich JK, DiTroia SP, O'Donnell-Luria A, Talkowski ME, Michelson AD, Cantor AB, Sankaran VG, The Journal of experimental medicine 2021 Jun 218 6
- CD11c regulates hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells under stress. Hou L, Voit RA, Sankaran VG, Springer TA, Yuki K, Blood advances 2020 Dec 4 24 6086-6097
- Sowing the Seeds of Clonal Hematopoiesis. Liggett LA, Voit RA, Sankaran VG, Cell stem cell 2020 Aug 27 2 195-197
- Pyruvate kinase deficiency in a newborn with extramedullary hematopoiesis in the skin. Voit RA, Grace RF, Blood 2020 Aug 136 6 770
- Stabilizing HIF to Ameliorate Anemia. Voit RA, Sankaran VG, Cell 2020 Jan 180 1 6
- SAPTA: a new design tool for improving TALE nuclease activity. Lin Y, Fine EJ, Zheng Z, Antico CJ, Voit RA, Porteus MH, Cradick TJ, Bao G, Nucleic acids research 2014 Apr 42 6 e47
- Nuclease-mediated gene editing by homologous recombination of the human globin locus. Voit RA, Hendel A, Pruett-Miller SM, Porteus MH, Nucleic acids research 2014 Jan 42 2 1365-78
- An erythroid enhancer of BCL11A subject to genetic variation determines fetal hemoglobin level. Bauer DE, Kamran SC, Lessard S, Xu J, Fujiwara Y, Lin C, Shao Z, Canver MC, Smith EC, Pinello L, Sabo PJ, Vierstra J, Voit RA, Yuan GC, Porteus MH, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Lettre G, Orkin SH, Science (New York, N.Y.) 2013 Oct 342 6155 253-7
- Generation of an HIV resistant T-cell line by targeted "stacking" of restriction factors. Voit RA, McMahon MA, Sawyer SL, Porteus MH, Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 2013 Apr 21 4 786-95
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Awards and Honors
- American Society for Clinical Investigation Emerging Generation Awardee (2024)
- CPRIT First-time Tenure-track Investigator (2024)
- National Cancer Institute K08 Awardee (2024)
- Alex's Lemonade Stand Young Investigator (2023)
- Evans MDS Young Investigator (2023)