ASTCT Talks

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Tania Jain engages in a conversation with Dr. Richard Jones, the BMT director and co-director of the Hematologic Malignancies Programs at Johns Hopkins University. He shares his journey in the field of oncology and transplantation, reflecting on the life events and experiences that led him to this path. He delves into the groundbreaking development of pos...

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, the June President's Message, we are joined by Dr. Miguel Perales, President of ASTCT and Chief of the Adult Bone Marrow Transplantation Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. This episode features a personal story of a patient with aggressive lymphoma who initially had doubts about th...

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Christina Ferraro, MSN, APRN-CNP, BMTCN, is joined by Beth Faiman, PhD, MSN, APN-BC, AOCN, BMTCN, FAAN, FAPO, to discuss criteria used to determine who is eligible for CAR-T cells, efforts between multi-disciplinary teams to select patients, ethical implications in patient selection and more. About Christina Ferraro Christina Ferraro completed her bachelor of...

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Rahul Banerjee, MD, FACP, sits down with Dr. Tania Jain, MBBS. They dive into "How I Treat Cytopenias after CAR T-cell Therapy,” a paper published by Dr. Jain and co-authors (Timothy S. Olson, MD, PhD and Frederick Locke, MD) in Blood in February 2023. They discuss why cytopenias occur after CAR-T therapy, how to evaluate cytopenias after CAR-T thera...

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Rahul Banerjee, MD, FACP, sits down with Dr. Urvi A. Shah, MD, to discuss CAR-T vs bsAbs among academic audiences, bispecific antibodies (in particular commercially available teclistamab), future cycles of teclistamab, infections in published trials of bsAbs in myeloma and more. About Dr. Rahul Banerjee, MD, FACP Dr. Banerjee, MD, FACP, (@RahulBanerjeeMD)...

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Genovefa Papanicolaou, MD sits down with Dr. Richard J. O'Reilly, MD and Professor Karl S. Peggs, MB, BCh, MA, MRCP, FRCPath to discuss Virus-Specific T-Cells (VST). They dive into what VSTs are, safety of VSTs, challenges and opportunities of adoptive cell therapy for viruses and more. Disclaimer: Dr. Richard O’Reilly received royalties following lic...

In the next installment of ASTCT’s Titans of Transplant series, Dr. Micah Skeens, PhD, MS, CPNP-PC, is interviewed by Darren J. Johnson, PA. They dive into her story and background as a pediatric oncology nurse of over 20 years and current research interests and passions, including development of an app for medical adherence in transplant. They also discuss importance of mentorship in the field fo...

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Andrés Gómez De León sits down with Dr. Aaron Logan to discuss development of current techniques for quantifying measurable residual disease (MRD) in acute lymphoblastic leukemia and MRD's relation to transplantation and cell therapy. They discuss the concept of MRD and its relevance in the treatment of leukemia as a prognostic marker and to help guide cl...

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Firas El Chaer talks with Dr. Alpana Waghmare and Dr. Michael Ison to discuss the winter “Tridemic,” which includes COVID, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). They discuss the diagnostic and treatment approaches for the Tridemic in recipients of hematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy, examine the precautions and best practices for...

In the next installment of ASTCT’s Titans of Transplant series, Susan Slater, nurse practitioner and recipient of the Best APP Abstract Award at the 2016 BMT Tandem meetings and the 2020 APP SIG Lifetime Achievement Award, is interviewed by Dr. Jennifer Saultz, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Oregon Healthy & Science University and a member of the Adult Transplant and cellular therapy team....

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Steven Pergam talks with Dr. Amy Spallone and Dr. Emily Ford to discuss Monkeypox in HCT and CAR T. They cover the basics of Monkeypox, risk factors for Monkeypox among patients, presenting symptoms for Monkeypox, vaccines for Monkeypox and more. About Dr. Steven Pergam Dr. Steven Pergam (@PergamIC) is an Infectious Diseases Physician and Professor at the...

In the next installment of ASTCT’s Titans of Transplant series, Dr. John. F. DiPersio, an internationally recognized leader in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and acute leukemia and past president of ASTCT (2019) is interviewed by Dr. Roman Shapiro. About Dr. John F. DiPersio John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD is deputy director at Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, director at Center for Gene and Cel...

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, we celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month as Dr. Jennifer Saultz talks with Dr. Eneida Nemecek to highlight her work and share her advocacy, passion and journey to becoming a medical director of clinical research. She explains her experiences as a Latina woman in the field of cellular therapy and transplantation, barriers Hispanic and marginalized groups...

In the next installment of ASTCT’s Titans of Transplant series, Dr. Rainer Storb, one of the pioneers who established allogeneic, or donor, blood stem cell transplantation as a cure for diseases like leukemia and aplastic anemia, is interviewed by Dr. Masumi Ueda. About Dr. Storb Rainer Storb, MD, serves as Professor and Head of Transplantation Biology Program Clinical Research Division at Fred Hu...

In the next installment of ASTCT’s Titans of Transplant series, Dr. Hema Rangarajan, an oncologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a member of the ASTCT Content Committee, speaks with Dr. Adriana Seber, who is a professor of medicine at the University of Miami and the Kalish Family Chair and Chief of Division of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center an...

In this latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Andrés Gómez De León, a physician at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Hematology Service in Monterrey, Mexico, and Dr. Cristóbal Frutos, who is the Coordinator for the Bone Marrow transplant Unito the Hospital Central Instituto de Previsión Social in Asunción Paraguay, discuss the current state of transplant activities and the importance of having a...

In the next installment of ASTCT’s Titans of Transplant series, Dr. Rahul Banerjee, Advanced Fellow, BMT/CAR-T Therapy, with the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, speaks with Dr. Krishna Komanduri, who is a professor of medicine at the University of Miami and the Kalish Family Chair and Chief of Division of Transplantation...

In the latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Zainab Shahid, internist in the hematology department of the Levine Cancer Institute Morehead in Charlotte, North Carolina, leads a conversation around ongoing clinical challenges regarding management of COVID-19 in transplant cellular therapy recipients. Dr. Shahid is joined by some of the foremost experts in infectious disease and transplant patients: Dr...

In the second installment of ASTCT’s Titans of Transplant series, Dr. Andrés Gómez De León, physician with the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Hematology Service in Monterrey, Mexico, speaks with Dr. Gregorio Jaimovich, who is the director of the bone marrow transplantation programs of the Favaloro University Hospital and the Anchorena Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Titans of Transpla...

In the first episode of ASTCT’s Titans of Transplant series, Dr. Jennifer Holter-Chakrabarty, physician with The University of Oklahoma Health and professor of medicine in hematology/oncology, speaks with Dr. Mary Horowitz, whose credentials include professor and deputy cancer center director at the Medical College of Wisconsin; the Robert A. Uihlein, Jr. Chair in hematologic research; associate d...

Join Dr. Rahul Banerjee, Advanced Fellow of BMT / CAR T Therapy in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and Dr. Nina Shah, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco, as they discuss their paper “Early Time-to-Tocilizumab after B Cell Maturation Antigen-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy in Myeloma.” The paper was co-au...

This episode of ASTCT Talks features a recently recorded conversation with Dr. John DiPersio, a Bone Marrow Transplant Specialist and Medical Oncologist at the Siteman Cancer Center at the Washington University School of Medicine, and a past president of ASTCT. We discuss emerging therapies to treat AML, advancements in immunotherapies, and much more.

In this episode of ASTCT Talks, Dr. Andrés Gómez De León, physician at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León Hematology Service in Monterrey, Mexico, and Dr. Perla Colunga, who is one of the specialist physicians in the hematology service of UANL, discuss their paper “Outpatient Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation Using Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide Is Safe and Feasible,” which was publis...

In this episode of ASTCT Talks, we’re joined by Steven Pavletic, MD, MS, Senior Clinician, Immune Deficiency Cellular Therapy Program, National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research; and Kirk Schultz, MD, Professor, University of British Columbia BC Children’s Hospital. Our conversation spans all-things chronic GVHD, including the latest research and discussions coming out the Chronic GVHD C...

In this episode of ASTCT Talks, we sit down with Parameswaran Hari, MD, MCRP to discuss the role of minimal residual disease in multiple myeloma. Hari, the Armand J. Quick/William F. Stapp Professor of Hematology and the Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin, said advances in MRD testing signals improvement in progression-free survival in multiple myeloma...