Cassian Yee, M.D.

MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Yee is a Professor in the Department of Melanoma Medical Oncology and  Department of Immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center where he is also Director of the Solid Tumor Cell Therapy Program. He previously held the position of Professor in the division of Oncology at the University of Washington and was a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Yee is a pioneer in the field of adoptive cellular therapy and over the last two decades has developed specialized forms of antigen-specific T cell cancer therapy.

As a physician-scientist, his research converges multidisciplinary approaches in bioengineering, metabolism, epigenetics and molecular immunology into enabling technologies that render adoptive cell therapy more effective and accessible as a treatment modality for patients. He holds more than 15 worldwide patents on ex vivo generation of antigen specific T cells, memory reprogramming and antigen discovery in an effort to establish immunotherapy-based cancer treatments on a global scale.