Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
Seattle, United States
Nicholas Vitanza, MD, is an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He directs the Vitanza Lab at Seattle Research Institute's Ben Town Center for Childhood Cancer Research and he serves as Seattle Children's CNS CAR T cell Lead and DIPG Research Lead. Dr. Vitanza completed his pediatric oncology fellowship under the mentorship of Bill Carroll at NYU, where his laboratory work led to a COG trial and an ASH Young Investigator Award. He completed his neuro-oncology fellowship under the mentorship of Michelle Monje at Stanford, where his post-doc work focused on combinatorial targeted therapy for DIPG was published in Science Translational Medicine. He joined Seattle Children’s in 2016 and has written and overseen 3 CNS CAR T cell trials, with a publication of preliminary findings in Nature Medicine. In 2021, Dr. Vitanza opened an independent lab focused on epigenetic and immunotherapeutic targeting of pediatric CNS tumors.