2023 PTCTC/Jeff Gordon Children's Foundation Young Investigator Award Winner

The 2023 PTCTC/JGCF Young Investigator Award is presented to Hannah Kinoshita, MD.

Dr. Hannah Kinoshita, Children’s National Hospital, Washington DC.  

Specificity, cytotoxicity and persistence of TAA-T therapy

Hannah is a pediatric oncologist with an interest in cellular immunotherapy applied for the treatment of relapsed/refractory leukemia. She is an attending oncologist in the Leukemia/Lymphoma Division in the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s National Hospital and junior faculty member at George Washington University in the Department of Pediatrics.  Her research focused on cellular immunotherapy is conducted under the mentorship of Drs. Catherine Bollard and Michael Keller in the Center for Cancer and Immunology Research. Her current research projects are aimed at evaluating and optimizing the use of the multi-antigen specific adoptive T cell therapies following stem cell transplant for malignant and non-malignant disease to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with infection and relapse.

Watch Jeff Gordon present this award in the video below!