Dr. Rongfu Wang is a Professor of Pediatrics for the Cancer and Blood Disease Institute and the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation & Cellular Therapy at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), is an Endowed Chair and Director of the Cell Therapy Research Program at CHLA. He is also a Professor of Medicine, the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Genetics at the University of Georgia in 1992, and completed his postdoctoral training with the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1994. He then completed a Cancer Immunotherapy Fellowship with Dr. Steve Rosenberg at the National Cancer Institute in 1996 and continued as a Senior Investigator until 2000 at the National Cancer Institute, NIH. During his tenure at NCI, Dr. Wang made seminal contributions to cancer antigen discovery and cancer immunotherapy.