Dr. Emily Limerick is a staff clinician in NHLBI working in the Laboratory of Early Sickle Mortality Prevention. She completed her pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship in the combined Johns Hopkins- NIH training program. Dr. Limerick's research focuses on haploidentical stem cell transplantation for sickle cell disease as well as biomarkers of organ function in sickle cell disease, specifically sickle nephropathy with a burgeoning interest in sickle cardiomyopathy. She is the principal investigator of a study exploring markers of sickle nephropathy as well as an allogeneic transplant protocol for patients who have failed a prior transplant. Dr. Limerick is a past participant in the American Society of Hematology’s Clinical Research Training Institute. She earned her Masters in Clinical Research through the combined Duke-NIH Clinical Research Training Program; her thesis work explored renal function in patients with sickle cell disease after stem cell transplantation.
Publications
Kidney function after nonmyeloablative hematopoietic cell transplant for sickle cell disease