Marcela Maus MD, PhD

Marcela Maus, MD, PhD, is the Director of Cellular Immunotherapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the Paula O’Keefe Chair in Oncology and Associate Physician in the division of Hematology/Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Maus is also an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and an Associate Member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard.

Dr. Maus is a translational physician-scientist in the field of immunology, particularly as it relates to cancer. Her research program spans basic mechanisms of human immunology to design and test novel immune-based therapeutic interventions in vitro, in mouse models and in patients. Her group has initiated novel clinical trials of cell therapies in lymphoma, myeloma and glioblastoma, and has ongoing projects to enhance CAR T cells for multiple solid tumors.

Dr. Maus received her SB from MIT and her MD and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Maus trained in internal medicine at Penn and in hematology and medical oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering.