Core Clinical Centers

Participating Clinical Centers are responsible for recruiting, examining, and treating study participants.  They are also responsible for collecting all clinical, laboratory, demographic, and other data required by the study.  Each Core Clinical Center is led by a Principal Investigator who is personally responsible for ensuring that all aspects of CTN protocols are followed.  Other key center staff includes physicians, study coordinators, and laboratory technicians.

Clinical Center staff carries out the provisions of the Manual of Procedures and CTN protocols.  They are responsible for registering and maintaining follow-up of all participants. 

There are 16 Core Clinical Centers in the CTN.  Some Centers are consortia of two or more centers.  The Core Clinical Centers are:

The BMT CTN is committed to including widespread transplant community participation in these trials.  However, due to the limited resources, not all requests can be accommodated for each protocol.  If your center is interested in participating, please print and fax the completed Affiliate Center Application to BMT CTN DCC/EMMES at 301-251-1355.  You will be contacted if your center is selected for participation.

 

Hillard Lazarus, M.D. - Principal Investigator

Case Western Reserve University (Consortium)

Comp. Cancer Center/Univ. Hospitals of Cleveland

11100 Euclid Avenue

Cleveland, OH  44106-5065

216-844-3629; 216-844-5979 FAX

E-Mail: hml@po.cwru.edu

 

 

 

Stephen Forman, M.D. - Principal Investigator

City of Hope National Medical Center

1500 E. Duarte Road

Duarte, CA  91010-3000

626-359-8111; 626-301-8256 FAX

E-Mail: sforman@coh.org

 

 

 

Kirk Schultz, M.D. - Principal Investigator

Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortia

BC Children’s Hospital

4480 Oak Street

Vancouver, BC, Canada  V6H 3V4

604-875-2316; 604-875-2911 FAX

E-mail: kschultz@interchange.ubc.ca

 

 

 

Joseph Antin, M.D. - Principal Investigator

Dana Farber/Partners Cancer Care

44 Binney Street, Dana 1B58

Boston, MA  02115

617-632-2525; 617-632-5175 FAX

E-Mail: jantin@partners.org

 

 

 

Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D. - Principal Investigator

Duke University Medical Center

2400 Pratt Street, Suite 1400

Durham, NC  27705

919-668-1119; 919-668-1180 FAX

E-Mail: kurtz001@mc.duke.edu

 

 

 

Frederick Appelbaum, M.D. – Principal Investigator

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

1100 Fairview Ave North, D5-310, Box 19024

Seattle, WA  98109-1024

206-667-4412; 206-667-6936 FAX

E-Mail: fappelba@fhcrc.org

 

 

 

Richard Jones, M.D. - Principal Investigator

Johns Hopkins University, Oncology Center

1650 Orleans Street, CRB 207

Baltimore, MD  21231

410-955-2006; 410-614-7279 FAX

E-Mail: jonesri@jhmi.edu

 

 

 

Richard O'Reilly, M.D. - Principal Investigator

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1275 York Avenue

New York, NY  10021

212-639-5957; 212-717-3447 FAX

E-Mail: oreillyr@mskcc.org

 

 

 

Ginna Laport, M.D. - Principal Investigator

Stanford Hospital and Clinics

300 Pasteur Drive, J-3249

Stanford, CA  94305-5290

650-723-0822; 650-725-8950 FAX

E-Mail: glaport@stanford.edu

 

 

 

Edward Ball, M.D. - Principal Investigator

Univ. of California, San Diego School of Medicine/SCRIPPS

9310 Campus Point Drive, MC #7621

La Jolla, CA 92037-7621

858-657-7058; 858-657-6837 FAX

E-Mail: tball@ucsd.edu

 

 

 

John Wingard, M.D. - Principal Investigator

University of Florida College of Medicine

1600 Southwest Archer Road, Box 100277

Gainesville, FL  32610-0277

352-273-8022; 352-392-8530 FAX

E-Mail: wingajr@medicine.ufl.edu

 

 

 

James Ferrara, M.D. - Principal Investigator

BMT CTN Steering Committee Chairman

University of Michigan Medical Center

1500 E. Medical Center Drive, CGC6308

Ann Arbor, MI  48109-0942

734-615-1340; 734-615-3947 FAX

E-Mail: ferrara@umich.edu

 

 

 

Daniel Weisdorf, M.D. - Principal Investigator

BMT CTN Steering Committee Past-chair

University of Minnesota

420 Delaware Street SE

Minneapolis, MN  55455

612-624-3101; 612-625-6919 FAX

E-Mail: weisd001@umn.edu

 

 

 

Julie Vose, M.D. - Principal Investigator

University of Nebraska Medical Center

987680 Nebraska Medical Center

Omaha, NE  68198-7680

402-559-3848; 402-559-6520 FAX

E-Mail: jmvose@unmc.edu

 

 

 

Edward Stadtmauer, M.D. - Principal Investigator

University of Pennsylvania Hospital

3400 Spruce St., 16 Penn Tower

Philadelphia, PA  19104

215-662-7910; 215-662-4064 FAX

E-Mail: stadtmau@mail.med.upenn.edu

 

 

 

Sergio Giralt, MD

University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 423

Houston, TX   77030

713-792-8750, 713-792-8314 FAX

E-Mail:  sgiralt@mail.mdanderson.org