Kim Vanuytsel, PhD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Kim Vanuytsel is a stem cell biologist with expertise in developmental hematopoiesis, red blood cell development and hematopoietic stem cell biology. As part of the research community at Boston University and Boston Medical Center, she has focused on developing tools and resources that help us understand important concepts in hematopoietic development with the goal of translating this knowledge into the realization of the immense potential that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and hematopoietic stem cells hold for disease modeling and regenerative medicine.
With her work, Dr. Vanuytsel aims to find better solutions for patients suffering from blood disorders. To achieve this, her lab 1) studies hematopoietic development and the biology of blood stem cells to improve hematopoietic stem cell transplantation outcomes and 2) generates red blood cells from sickle cell disease patient-specific iPSCs to assess novel therapeutic options across the diverse patient population served at Boston Medical Center.

Publications

  • Published 10/4/2026

    Skvir NJ, Dowrey TW, Cranston SF, MacDonald E, Giadone R, Jones D, Golden CS, Pate B, Labott M, Serrano MA, Alysandratos KD, Vanuytsel K, Murphy GJ. Disease-associated mutations directionally modulate epigenetic age in iPSC-derived tissues. bioRxiv. 2026 Oct 04. PMID: 42856619.

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  • Published 5/21/2026

    Pate B, Goldstein A, Labott M, Lizarralde-Iragorri M, Chankhunthod A, Tyson T, Sloan M, Wijeyesekera C, Wilks A, Steinberg MH, Murphy GJ, Vanuytsel K. Modeling Genetic Diversity in Sickle Cell Disease Reveals Heterogeneous Responses to HbF-Inducing Therapies. bioRxiv. 2026 May 21. PMID: 42239194.

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  • Published 5/7/2024

    Kretov DA, Folkes L, Mora-Martin A, Walawalkar IA, Imrat, Syedah N, Vanuytsel K, Moxon S, Murphy GJ, Cifuentes D. The miR-144/Hmgn2 regulatory axis orchestrates chromatin organization during erythropoiesis. Nat Commun. 2024 May 07; 15(1):3821. PMID: 38714702.

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  • Published 11/28/2023

    Yeung AK, Villacorta-Martin C, Lindstrom-Vautrin J, Belkina AC, Vanuytsel K, Dowrey TW, Ysasi AB, Bawa P, Wang F, Vrbanac V, Mostoslavsky G, Balazs AB, Murphy GJ. De novo hematopoiesis from the fetal lung. Blood Adv. 2023 Nov 28; 7(22):6898-6912. PMID: 37729429.

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  • Published 7/19/2022

    Sae-Lee W, McCafferty CL, Verbeke EJ, Havugimana PC, Papoulas O, McWhite CD, Houser JR, Vanuytsel K, Murphy GJ, Drew K, Emili A, Taylor DW, Marcotte EM. The protein organization of a red blood cell. Cell Rep. 2022 Jul 19; 40(3):111103. PMID: 35858567.

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Other Positions

  • Member, Center for Regenerative Medicine
    Boston University
  • Graduate Medical Sciences Educator and Mentor (Primary Mentor of Graduate Students)
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences

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Education

  • Katholieke Univ Leuven, PhD
  • Katholieke Univ Leuven, MS

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