Carl June, M.D.

Carl June, M.D. holds a number of roles at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, including Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, Professor of Medicine, Director, at the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies and Director at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 1979. He had graduate training in Immunology and malaria with Dr. Paul-Henri Lambert at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland from 1978-1979 and post-doctoral training in transplantation biology with Dr. E. Donnell Thomas at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle from 1983 – 1986. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. He founded the Immune Cell Biology Program and was head of the Department of Immunology at the Naval Medical Research Institute from 1990 to 1995. He rose to Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cell and Molecular Biology at the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland before assuming his current position as of February 1, 1999. He maintains a research laboratory that studies various mechanisms of lymphocyte activation that relate to immune tolerance and adoptive immunotherapy. He is the scientific founder of Xcyte Therapies, Inc. and Tmune Therapeutics, Inc.