# Stephen J. Forman

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## TL;DR

Transplant pioneer who built City of Hope's cell therapy programme, one of the largest in the country.

## Summary

Stephen Forman is Director of the Hematologic Malignancies Research Institute and Francis and Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair at City of Hope. A haematologist specialising in haematopoietic cell transplantation, CAR-T and lymphoma, he led City of Hope's bone marrow transplant programme for decades and built its cell therapy programme, one of the largest in the country. His papers include a Blood report of phase 1 studies of central memory-derived CD19 CAR T-cell therapy after autologous transplant in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and a Blood commentary on the myth of the second remission of acute leukaemia in adults. He directs haematologic malignancies research including CAR-T development for lymphoma and leukaemia and off-the-shelf cell therapy.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Role: Director, Hematologic Malignancies Research Institute; Francis and Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair, City of Hope
- Specialisms: Hematopoietic cell transplantation; CAR-T; Lymphoma

## Sources

- City of Hope research faculty: https://www.cityofhope.org/research/find-a-researcher
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Forman%20SJ%5BAuthor%5D
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Stephen%20J.%20Forman

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Acute myeloid leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/aml/), [Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/dlbcl/)
- technologies: [Allogeneic (off-the-shelf) cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/allogeneic-cell-therapy/), [CAR-T cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/car-t/)
- institutions: [City of Hope](https://onco.cc/institutions/city-of-hope/)

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