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Robbie Majzner, MD, is Director of the Pediatric and Young Adult Cancer Cell Therapy Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital. He is focused on the development and deployment of immunotherapies for pediatric cancer. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School, followed by training in Pediatrics at New York Presbyterian-Columbia and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at Johns Hopkins and the National Cancer Institute. His work in the laboratory centers on engineering platform technologies to improve the efficacy of CAR T cells in solid tumors and overcome therapeutic resistance. Concurrently, he is focused on translating laboratory advances in innovative immunotherapy clinical trials for children and adults with incurable cancers.
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