Giants of Cancer Care® Program Inductees
Leukemia
Stephen J. Forman, MD
City of Hope
- Forman is director of the Hematologic Malignancies Research Institute, a professor in the Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, director of the T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory, and codirector of the Hematologic Malignancies Program, Comprehensive Cancer Center, at City of Hope.
- His expertise lies in leukemia, lymphoma, and bone marrow transplantation, and he is a coeditor of the textbook, "Thomas’ Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation," which was published for clinicians, scientists, and health care professionals.
- He developed the primary plan for the City of Hope Lymphoma Specialized Program of Research Excellence, which is designed to create preventive strategies and novel treatments and bring them into the clinical trial setting for patients with lymphoma.
- Forman’s early research to bridge gaps for nonrelated matched and partially matched donors through molecular typing culminated in decades of programs to expand treatment options such as through the creation of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Research Network, in which he served as an investigator.
- Under his leadership, City of Hope has performed more than 17,000 bone marrow and stem cell transplantations.
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