Christian S. Hinrichs

Biography

Dr. Hinrichs received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the combined 6-year program at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC). He completed a residency in general surgery at UMKC followed by a fellowship in surgical oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. He then came to the Surgery Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a surgical oncology fellow and studied tumor immunology in the laboratory of Dr. Nicholas P. Restifo. Subsequently he completed an internal medicine residency at George Washington University and a medical oncology fellowship with the Medical Oncology Branch, CCR. Dr. Hinrichs conducts translational research and clinical trials to develop T-cell therapies for cancers caused by human papillomaviruses. Dr. Hinrichs researches immunotherapy for HPV+ cancers, which include cervical, oropharyngeal, anal, vulvar, vaginal, and penile malignancies. He has discovered personalized cellular and gene therapies for HPV+ cancers. His laboratory is studying why these treatments work in some patients and not in others and is using what is learned to innovate more effective therapies.

Research Interest

1) Immunotherapy, 2) Cell therapy, 3) Human papillomavirus, 4) Cervical cancer, 5) Oropharyngeal cancer, 6) anal cancer, 7) discover and develop novel T cell therapies for the treatment of patients with cancer, 8) Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics, 9) Cancer Biology, 10) Clinical Research, 11) Immunology, 12) Virology