Krishna Komanduri

Dr. Komanduri holds the Kalish Family Chair in Stem Cell Transplantation and is Professor of Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology and is the Director of the Adult Stem Cell Transplant Program and Associate Director for Clinical Innovation at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Dr. Komanduri received his undergraduate education at MIT (1987), his MD at the University of Minnesota Medical School (1991) and trained at UCLA (in Internal Medicine) and UCSF (in Hematology/Oncology). Prior to moving to Miami in 2008, he was a faculty member at UCSF and at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. His laboratory research is focused on studies of cancer immunology and has been widely published and supported by the NIH and cancer-related foundation.

Dr. Komanduri is the immediate Past-President of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT). He also serves as Co-Chair of the CIBMTR Working Committee on Infections and Immune Reconstitution and as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Marrow Donor Program (BeTheMatch) and as a member of the MIT NEWDIGS “think and do” tank on financing of novel curative therapies in oncology. He has also served as Chair of the Immunology and Host Defense Scientific Committee for the American Society of Hematology and as a clinical expert for the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review Policy Roundtable on CAR-T Therapies. He also co-chaired the 2018 ASBMT consensus conference on grading and reporting of toxicities for CAR-T cell therapies and continues to serve as co-chair of the ASBMT Committee on Cellular Therapies. He has been the recipient of awards including election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (in 2009).