Medicine Grand Rounds: Development of an Anti-CD47 Cancer Therapeutic Antibody

When:
September 25, 2019 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
2019-09-25T08:00:00-07:00
2019-09-25T09:00:00-07:00
Where:
LKSC Berg Hall
291 Campus Drive
Palo Alto
CA 94305
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Talia Ochoa
Medicine Grand Rounds: Development of an Anti-CD47 Cancer Therapeutic Antibody @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Ravindra Majeti MD, PhD 

Pofessor of Hematology, Chief of the Division of Hematology, and Member of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University

Ravi Majeti MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Hematology, and Member of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was an undergraduate at Harvard, earned his MD and PhD from UCSF, and trained in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Majeti completed his Hematology Fellowship at Stanford, and is a board-certified hematologist. While at Stanford, he completed post-doctoral training in the laboratory of Irving Weissman, where he investigated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) stem cells and therapeutic targeting with anti-CD47 antibodies. With Dr. Weissman, he developed a humanized anti-CD47 antibody, initiated first-in-human clinical trials. Dr. Majeti directs an active NIH-funded laboratory that focuses on the molecular characterization and therapeutic targeting of leukemia stem cells in human hematologic disorders, particularly AML, and has published >90 peer-reviewed articles. He is a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists, the New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Investigator Award, and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Scholar Award. Dr. Majeti is currently a member of the Committee on Scientific Affairs for the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and serves of the editorial board of Blood and eLife.