Evren Alici

Dr. Alici is the Head of the Gene and Cell Therapy Group, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital. As a senior researcher and group leader in Hematology at KI, Department of Medicine, he also serves as co-director of NextGenNK, an international Competence Center for the development of next-generation NK cell-based cancer immunotherapies based at KI. Dr. Alici received his M.D. and did his residency at the Ege University, Turkey. He earned his Ph.D. in 2006 at KI.

Dr. Alici’s main research interests are novel approaches to generating universal cells including allogeneic NK cells, multiple myeloma, lentiviral and retroviral gene transfer, stem cell transplantation and immunology.

Dr. Alici participated in the planning and design of the first clinical study with gene-modified cells in Sweden and authored the final publication. Additionally, he was also responsible for the first-in-man autologous NK cell therapy clinical trial that was classified as advanced therapy medicinal product use. Dr. Alici is affiliated with VyGen-Bio.