Chats with our Scientific Advisory Board: Carl June, MD with Christopher Ung on Immunotherapies

CAR-T pioneer Carl June sat down with our Chief Scientific business officer Christopher Ung for a great conversation discussing the future of immunotherapy. Dr Carl June is a member of our scientific advisory board, a group who works closely with our leadership and scientists to ensure we are at the forefront of therapeutic development, generating reliable, regulatory-ready data that supports complex clinical development.

CellCarta partners with translational medicine, biomarker, and clinical development teams to generate reliable, regulatory-ready data for complex clinical programs. With fully owned and harmonized laboratory operations across North America, Europe, Australia, and China, CellCarta delivers integrated capabilities spanning immunology, histopathology, proteomics, and genomics, including for CAR and immunotherapy programs, supported by comprehensive sample management and logistics solutions.

About Carl June:

Carl June is the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is currently Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine, and Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 1979. He received his graduate training in immunology and malaria with Dr. Paul-Henri Lambert at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland from 1978-79, and his post-doctoral training in transplantation biology with E. Donnell Thomas and John Hansen at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle from 1983 – 1986. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. He maintains a research laboratory that studies various mechanisms of lymphocyte activation that relate to immune tolerance and adoptive immunotherapy for cancer and chronic infection. In 2011, his research team published findings detailing a new therapy in which patients with refractory and relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia were treated with genetically engineered versions of their own T cells. The treatment has now been used with promising results to treat children with refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He has published more than 350 manuscripts and is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including election to the Institute of Medicine in 2012 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014, the William B Coley award, the Richard V Smalley Memorial Award from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, the AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology, the Philadelphia Award in 2012, the Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Science in 2014 (shared w S. Grupp, B. Levine, D. Porter), the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (shared w J. Allison), the Novartis Prize in Immunology (shared w Z. Eshaar and S. Rosenberg), the Karl Landsteiner Memorial award, the Debrecen Award and a lifetime achievement award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.