Miguel-Angel Perales, MD, has been named as the president of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) for the term 2023-2024. Perales is the chief of the adult bone marrow transplantation service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. He has been a member of the ASTCT since 2001 and served on the society’s board of directors since 2017. Perales’ research focuses on reducing risk factors for complications, relapse, and graft-versus-host disease for patients undergoing stem cell transplantation, and he is studying new strategies to improve the recovery of the immune system after a transplant. He is also the chair of Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology’s transplantation and cell-based therapies committee and a member of the board of directors of Be The Match (National Marrow Donor Program).
Miguel-Angel Perales, MD, has been named as the president of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) for the term 2023-2024. The chief of the adult bone marrow transplantation service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College has been a member of the ASTCT since 2001 and has served on the society’s board of directors since 2017. Perales will lead the society’s new strategic plan and focus on providing more science-oriented approaches to advance treatment options. In his role, he aims to support the field by advocating for patients and promoting the science behind hematologic malignancies, allogeneic transplant, and cellular therapy. Perales’ research is centered around reducing risk factors for complications, relapse, and graft-versus-host disease for patients undergoing stem cell transplantation. Additionally, he is studying new strategies to improve the recovery of the immune system after a transplant. Perales is also the chair of Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology’s transplantation and cell-based therapies committee and a member of the board of directors of Be The Match (National Marrow Donor Program).
The individual has previously served in leadership roles at the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and the Blood and Marrow Transplantation Clinical Trials Network.
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