
Stephen Gottschalk
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Speaker Affiliation
Stephen Gottschalk, M.D., Member, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Faculty, Chair, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Endowed Chair in Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy
Presentation: Engineered T Cell Therapy for Osteosarcoma
Biography
Dr. Gottschalk is the Chair of the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He is a physician scientist, who is interested in hematopoietic cell transplantation and cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Gottschalk’s current research focuses on the development of cell-based immunotherapies for pediatric cancers. He is actively conducting investigator-initiated early phase clinical studies with conventional and genetically modified immune cells. In the laboratory, Dr. Gottschalk’s team of MD and PhD researchers is focused on overcoming current limitations of cell-based immunotherapies for cancer. For his contributions to the field of cell therapy he was inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2015.