Stephen J. Schuster, M.D. is the Robert and Margarita Louis-Dreyfus Associate Professor of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Lymphoma, and Associate Professor of Medicine, at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  He also serves as Director of the Lymphoma Program and Director of Lymphoma Translational Research at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.  After graduating AOA from Jefferson Medical College and completing a residency in Internal Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital, Dr. Schuster went on to clinical and research fellowships at the Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research.  In 1989, he became a member of the Cardeza Foundation and joined the faculty at Jefferson Medical College.  He joined the Hematologic Malignancies Program at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. 

 

Since that time, his research has focused on the development and application of novel immunotherapies for non-Hodgkin lymphomas and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, including autologous tumor-derived vaccines, autologous co-stimulated T-cells for immune reconstitution after chemotherapy, radioimmunotherapy, and monoclonal antibody therapy.  Dr. Schuster has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and research from the University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical College, and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  He has over 100 publications.