Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) and Immunotherapy Fellowship

Specialized Training for Physicians Interested in Pediatric BMT and Immunotherapies

This intensive one-year fellowship is designed to prepare physicians for academic careers focused on transplantation and cellular therapy. Our program started in the late 1960’s with Nobel prize winner, E. Donnall Thomas, and his team of transplant physicians and clinical staff, who discovered a way to treat advanced leukemia by eradicating malignant white blood cells in the bone marrow using high doses of chemotherapy and radiation, and then replacing them with healthy donor cells.  We now have 60 clinical faculty members at Fred Hutch and the University of Washington who specialize in transplantation and cellular therapy and serve as mentors to trainees from around the world. 

Program Overview

The pediatric BMT and Immunotherapy fellowship is an intense, year-long program to prepare pediatric hematology-oncology physicians to become adept in blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) and immunotherapy (IMTX) services.

You will have the opportunity to work with world renowned faculty who are on the cutting edge of novel treatments for malignant and non-malignant diseases.  The fellow will rotate through outpatient and inpatient BMT (autologous and allogeneic, long-term follow-up) and IMTX services, and initially function as a primary care provider with increasing levels of patient care responsibility over the course of the year.  Approximately 8 months will be devoted to clinical activities with the remaining time available to participate in research projects.