DAVID RITCHIE, MD, PhD

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Professor And Head Of Department, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

Dr. Ritchie holds a co-appointment as a Consultant Haematologist and BMT Physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (PMCC). He is co-head of the Haematology Immunology Translational Research Laboratory (HITRL). He is the current President of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand, and Chair of the BMT study group of the Australasian Lymphoma and Leukaemia Group (ALLG). His clinical and translational research is specifically on the immunology and immunotherapy of blood cancers and the immunology of new drug therapies in myelodysplasia (MDS), acute and chronic leukaemias, myeloma and lymphoma, and the immunology of allogeneic transplantation. He has extensive experience as PI on numerous investigator initiated and company sponsored phase I-III clinical trials and substantial experience in the design and undertaking of clinical and translational research.