Paulina Velasquez, MD. Is an Associate Member in the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cell Therapy (BMTCT). She received her MD from Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala and then went on to train in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology Oncology at Baylor College of Medicine. She joined St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 2017.
As a physician scientist, she is focused on preclinical development of immunotherapeutic strategies for high-risk hematological malignancies. Her work centers on antigen discovery, multiantigen targeting, and addressing the impact of the tumor microenvironment on T-cell function. She is also co-principal investigator for several Phase I CAR T cell therapy clinical trials for patients with relapsed/refractory leukemias.