Dr. Robert Schwab, MD - Penn Medicine - CAR-T In Cardiovascular Medicine

Dr. Robert Schwab, MD is a Resident Physician, Research Specialist, and Hematology-Oncology Fellow at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System ( https://www3.pennmedicine.org/departments-and-centers/department-of-medicine/divisions/hematology-and-oncology/education-and-training/hematology-oncology-fellowship/fellows ).

Dr. Schwab’s work to date has focused on leukemia and bone marrow transplantation, and previously, he worked as a research specialist in Dr. Carl June's laboratory, investigating cancer immunotherapy and CAR-T cell treatments. 

More recently Dr. Schwab's research is centered on studying novel CAR-T cell therapy applications for addressing inflammation and atherosclerosis related to malignancies. In 2019, he founded Cartio Therapeutics, a biotech startup dedicated to developing cellular immunotherapy for cardiovascular disease.
 
Dr. Schwab received his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and Master of Science - MS, Translational Research, from the University of Pennsylvania and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biophysics and Biochemistry from Amherst.

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