Stephen J. Forman

Dr. Forman is the Francis & Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair in Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and leader of the Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation Institute and Director of the T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. An expert in leukemia, lymphoma and bone marrow transplantation, Dr. Forman has served at City of Hope for more than 40 years, deeply involved with the translational and clinical research at City of Hope’s Toni Stephenson Lymphoma Center, Center for CAR T Cell Therapy, Judy and Bernard Briskin Center for Multiple Myeloma Research and the Gehr Family Center for Leukemia Research. Dr. Forman was recognized by the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation as the 2019 E. Donnall Thomas Lecturer, and awarded the 2019 DKMS Mechtild Harf Science Award. Dr. Forman holds an MD from the University of Southern California and a B.A. from St. John’s College.