Soiffer Elected ASBMT President
Robert Soiffer, MD, chief of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies and co-director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program of the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, in February was elected president of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT). Soiffer was vice president of the ASBMT in 2006 and will serve a year as past-president in 2008.
Soiffer completed his residency at BWH in Internal Medicine and was chief medical resident in 1989. His work now focuses on immune manipulation to decrease graft-versus-host disease and graft-versus leukemia, a therapeutic effect in which the transplanted cells attack leftover leukemia cells.
The ASBMT, founded in 1993, is a national professional association of 1,500 members that focuses on education, research and clinical affairs that advance the field of cellular therapy and blood and marrow transplantation.