Joaquim Vives, PhD Contributing Editor, Telegraft Banc de Sang i Teixits Barcelona, Spain I earned my doctorate in 2002… that’s over 20 years ago, now (!) Throughout this time in research, I had the privilege of mentoring a diverse array of pre-doctoral...
Conrad Russell Y. Cruz MD PhD Senior Editor, Telegraft Children’s National Hospital, Washington DC The organizational psychologist Adam Grant writes that critical thinking requires us to: “(1) Be 10% more skeptical of people you agree with—and 10% more charitable to...
Janet Macpherson, Ph.D. Director SpanCyte Pty Ltd Sydney, NSW, Australia As we start 2025, many of our cell and gene therapy colleagues are heading to the first big events of the year. JPM Healthcare in San Francisco (13-16 Jan 2025) followed by Advanced Therapies...
Ashley Krull, Ph.D. Associate Director, Cell Therapy Manufacturing and Engineering James Cancer Hospital Cellular Therapy Laboratory Assistant Professor, Hematology The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, United States As 2024 draws to a close, the Editorial Board of the Telegraft is...
Adaeze Ekwe, PhD Junior Associate Editor ISCT ESP Leadership Development Program Cellular therapies have significantly evolved since inception as one of the most innovative and transformative approaches to treat diseases, offering new hope for patients with conditions previously deemed...
Janet Macpherson, PhD Senior Editor Cytiva Australia As the editorial team discussed the September issue of Telegraft, I proposed CAR T-cells for autoimmune disease as the topic of my editorial. Imagine my surprise, when reviewing the submitted content just days before publication,...
Rounak Dubey, MBBS, MD Assistant Professor, Transfusion Medicine All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur " I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course." ...
C. Russell Y. Cruz MD, PhD Children’s National Hospital Washington, DC, USA THERE IS THIS EASE, THIS SIMPLICITY, THIS INSPIRATION, WHEN WE WRITE ABOUT REVOLUTIONS. “Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies are here to change the world,” we say (and have been saying for over a...
Ashley Krull, Ph.D. Associate Director W.W. Williams Cellular Therapy Laboratory The Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA One week ago, a new manuscript re-introduced the concept of CAR-MSCs and piqued the interest of immunologists and cell biologists afresh. The report,...
Adaeze Ekwe, PhD Junior Associate Editor ISCT ESP Leadership Development Program From the laboratories to the clinics and boardrooms, women have been integral to the progress made in cell and gene therapy. As such for this Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day we...