Leonard S. Sender

Dr. Lennie Sender joined ImmunityBio as its Chief Operating Officer in March 2020, having previously served as Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs at NantKwest. Prior to joining NantKwest, he served as the Medical Director of the Hyundai Cancer Institute at Children’s Hospital in Orange County, California, and also has served as Medical Director of Clinical Oncology at the University of California’s National Cancer Institute-designated Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Sender is an accomplished transplant surgeon who received his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and subsequently trained in pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine and in pediatric hematology-oncology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He has previously served as the President of the Society for Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology (SAYAO) and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology (JAYAO).