Reona Sakemura

Division of Hematology

Mayo Clinic

Reona Sakemura

My research is focused on adoptive cellular therapy and allogeneic transplantation for hematological malignancies. After completing a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology in Japan, I joined the translational research program of the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, where I trained for three years. My work involved the development of inducible chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. An inducible model could reduce CART cell therapy-related toxicities such as off-target effects. I joined Dr. Kenderian’s laboratory at the Mayo Clinic in April 2017. I have led numerous innovative projects focused on developing CART cell therapies that target the microenvironment of hematological malignancies, non-invasively imaging CART cells with positron emission tomography and a combination of CART cell therapy with small molecule inhibitors.

Publications

Динамическая визуализация Т-клеток рецептора химерного антигена с помощью [18F]Тетрафтороборатно-позитронно-эмиссионной томографии/компьютерной томографии

1T Cell Engineering, Mayo Clinic, 2Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, 3Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 4Regenerative Sciences PhD, Mayo Clinic, 5Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 6Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic

JoVE 62334

 Cancer Research