Todd Fehniger

Dr. Fehniger is a physician-scientist with over 25 years of experience in Immunology and Oncology. Dr. Fehniger is a Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, Scientific Co-Director of the Center for Gene and Cellular Immunotherapy, and Co-Leader of the lymphoma program at the Siteman Cancer Center. Dr. Fehniger leads a research team focused on mechanisms of NK cell development and function, strategies to enhance immune responses to cancer, and lymphoma immunogenomics. His laboratory identified human memory NK cells differentiating after stimulation through combined cytokine receptors and pioneered translating NK cell memory as a cellular immunotherapy for leukemia. His clinical interests are hematologic malignancies, hematopoietic cell transplantation, and cellular immunotherapy.

Dr. Fehniger received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Immunology from Ohio State University, performing graduate training in the laboratory of Michael Caligiuri studying human NK cells. He conducted post-doctoral research studying the mechanisms of lymphocyte cytotoxicity with Dr. Timothy Ley at Washington University School of Medicine. He has led an independent basic, translational, and early phase clinical research program since joining the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in 2008.