Carl June, MD

Carl H. June, MD, is the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director of the PICI Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also currently Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine. He maintains a research laboratory that studies various mechanisms of lymphocyte activation that relate to immune tolerance and adoptive immunotherapy for cancer and chronic infection.

Dr. June has published more than 500 manuscripts and is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including election to the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He recently received the Breakthrough Prize and was a 2024 recipient of the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize for his pioneering work on CAR T-cell therapy, which has saved the lives of tens of thousands of adults and children with blood cancers.

• 1975: United States Naval Academy, BS
• 1979: Baylor College of Medicine, MD

• 2015: Watanabe Prize for Translational Research, Indiana University and Eli Lilly;  E. Donnall Thomas Award Lecture, American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation; Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine, University of Debrecen; Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture, Miami Winter Symposium; Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize; American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2014: Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research, American Association of Immunologists; Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences; Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence; Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Science; Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award, AABB; Aubrey Evans Award, Ronald McDonald House
• 2013: Richard V Smalley Award, Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer; Philadelphia Award
• 2012: Earnest Beutler Lecture and Prize, American Society of Hematology; Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award, Clinical Research Forum; Elected to Institute of Medicine
• 2009: Bristol-Myers Squibb Freedom to Discover Award
• 2006: American Association of Physicians; American Society for Clinical Investigation
• 2005: Federal Laboratory Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
• 2002: William Osler Award, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Lifetime Achievement Award, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America
• 2001: Burroughs Wellcome Fund Award: visiting professor in the basic medical sciences
• 1997: Frank Brown Berry Prize in Federal Medicine
• 1996: Dexter Conrad Award, Office of Naval Research, Navy’s highest award for Scientific Achievement; Legion of Merit, US Navy
• 1992: American Federation for Clinical Research
• 1991: Fellow, American College of Physicians
• 1978: Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society; Michael E. DeBakey Scholar award for the Outstanding Medical Student, Baylor College of Medicine