Corinne Summers, MD
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Apheresis
On staff since August 2015
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Dr. Corinne Summers is a principal investigator in the Ben Towne Center, an acting instructor at the University of Washington and a research associate at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.Her research focuses on developing T-cell therapies that potentially prevent relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in patients who received cord blood transplants. More specifically, she is engineering cord blood T cells to target leukemia cells. The goal is to create engineered T cells that can kill residual leukemia cells after a patient has received a cord blood transplant.
Summers received an MD from Florida State University College of Medicine. She completed a general pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at Seattle Children's.
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Related Pages
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Faculty profile for Dr. Corinne Summers. Dr. Summers specializes in pediatric blood stem cell transplant for patients with leukemia.
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Overview
- Board Certification(s)
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Pediatrics
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
- Medical/Professional School
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Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL
- Residency
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- Fellowship
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Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA
- Research Focus Area
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Cancer biology