Professor
Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutch
Dr. Michael Linenberger is a hematologist who treats patients with blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloproliferative neoplasms and myelodysplastic syndromes, or blood disorders such as anemia, sickle cell disease, thrombosis and bleeding. His research focuses on apheresis, the procedure for removing specific cell types from blood. He is an expert in bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell procurement for transplantation, collection of immune effector cells, and safety issues for patients and recipients of cell-based therapies. At Fred Hutch, he is the chief medical director of the Cell Processing Facility. At Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutch’s clinical care partner, he is medical director of Apheresis and Cellular Therapy and the collection center for the National Marrow Donor Program. He is actively involved in teaching at the University of Washington and Fred Hutch, where he directs the adult Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program.
Program Director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship
University of Washington
Medical Director, Apheresis and Cellular Therapy
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Professor, Hematology
University of Washington
Robert and Phyllis Henigson Endowed Chair
University of Washington
B.S., University of Kansas, 1978
M.D., University of Kansas, Kansas City, 1982
A Multicenter Study of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Donor Safety and Quality of Life Cancer Center Support Grant, Adult Leukemia Research Center
Institutional and multicenter projects supported by the Cancer Center Support Grant, Acute Leukemia Research
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