Dr. Barwe is a Senior Research Scientist who is the Head of the Cancer Modeling Laboratory at Nemours and the Director of the Cell Science Core. After completing her Postdoc at UCLA, she joined Nemours in 2007. Her research is focused on deciphering the role of the bone marrow microenvironment in therapy resistance and identifying means to reverse it. Dr. Barwe works on developing patient-derived xenograft models of pediatric leukemia for preclinical drug evaluation with the goal of transitioning to the clinic. She also mentors UD graduate students and co-directs the Nemours Summer Undergraduate Research Program.