Robert J. Soiffer
Professor
Hematologic OncologyÂ
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Soiffer graduated from New York University School of Medicine in 1983, and trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he also was chief medical resident. He joined DFCI in 1988, after completing a medical oncology fellowship. He is currently chief of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies and codirector of the Adult Stem Cell Transplantation Program. Dr. Soiffer is chairman of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research advisory committee and has served as vice president (2006), president (2007), and immediate past president (2008) of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.
Research Interest
Stem cell/bone marrow transplantation, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Publications
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Richardson PG, Smith AR, Triplett BM, Kernan NA, Grupp SA, Antin JH, Lehmann L, Shore T, Iacobelli M, Miloslavsky M, Hume R, Hannah AL, Nejadnik B, Soiffer RJ, . Defibrotide for Patients with Hepatic Veno-Occlusive Disease/Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome: Interim Results from a Treatment IND Study. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2017.
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Kekre N, Kim HT, Ho VT, Cutler C, Armand P, Nikiforow S, Alyea EP, Soiffer RJ, Antin JH, Connors JM, Koreth J. Venous thromboembolism is associated with graft-versus-host disease and increased non-relapse mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Haematologica 2017.
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Chen YB, Perales MA, Li S, Kempner M, Reynolds C, Brown J, Efebera YA, Devine SM, El-Jawahri A, McAfee SL, Spitzer TR, Soiffer RJ, Ritz J, Cutler C. Phase 1 multicenter trial of brentuximab vedotin for steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease. Blood 2017; 129:3256-3261.Â
