Judith Shizuru

Judith Shizuru is a Professor of Medicine (Blood and Marrow Transplantation [BMT]) and Pediatrics (Stem Cell Transplantation) at Stanford University. Dr. Shizuru is a member of the Stanford BMT faculty, the Stanford Immunology Program, and the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Shizuru received a Bachelor’s degree from Bennington College and an M.D. and Ph.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine. She trained as a resident in adult internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and in the sub-specialty of hematology at Stanford. Dr. Shizuru has been attending on the Stanford Blood and Marrow Transplantation clinical service since 1997, and she oversees a research laboratory. Her laboratory is focused on understanding the cellular and molecular basis of resistance to engraftment of transplanted allogeneic hematopoietic cells, and the way in which bone marrow grafts modify immune responses including the induction of immune tolerance. Dr. Shizuru has over 150 publications in the fields of immunology and hematopoietic cell transplantation. She is the scientific co-founder of Jasper Therapeutics, Inc, a member of the Board member and Chair of Jasper’s Scientific Advisory Board.