Dr Salvatore (Sam) Fiorenza

Sam is a physician-scientist and CAR(-T) enthusiast (he drives a Corolla). He is the Medical Lead of Cell Therapy at Epworth HealthCare where he is also a clinical haematologist with an interest in malignant disease and immunotherapy. He is also a staff specialist at the Alfred Hospital in the CAR-T and lymphoma team where he will be assisting with new cellular therapy studies arising from the Paula Fox Melanoma and Cancer Centre. Sam is a senior research fellow with Professor Cameron Turtle at the University of Sydney where his research interest is in using high-dimensional analyses to parse determinants of CAR-T cell therapy. During his post-doctoral studies at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, his broad research activity included the epigenomic basis of CAR-T cell fitness, novel CAR-T cell therapies for AML, understanding how the microbiome impacts T cell reconstitution following allogeneic stem cell transplantation and the value and affordability of CAR-T cell therapy.