Speaker

Donald B. Kohn MD is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Departments of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics (MIMG) and Pediatrics.  He is a pediatric bone marrow transplant physician and is a member of UCLA’s Broad Stem Cell Research Center and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. He performs laboratory and clinical studies of gene therapy for blood cell diseases, especially inborn errors of immunity and hemoglobinopathies. His research is focused on developing improved methods for adding or editing genes in human hematopoietic stem cells and evaluating these approaches in early phase clinical trials.

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