Edmund K. Waller, MD, PhD, FACP
Professor of Hematology/Oncology, Medicine, and Pathology
Winship Cancer Institute
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Edmund K. Waller, MD, PhD, FACP is professor of hematology and oncology at Winship Cancer Institute and professor of medicine and pathology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition, Dr Waller serves as associate director for Clinical Research, Winship Cancer Institute, director of the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Center, director of the Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Processing Laboratory, and medical director of the Apheresis Center at the Emory University Hospital. Dr Waller earned his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College and his PhD in chemical biology from Rockefeller University in New York, New York. Dr Waller completed a residency in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University in Stanford, California. He then went on to complete a clinical fellowship in oncology, as well as a research fellowship in pathology at Stanford University.

Dr Waller’s research focuses on optimizing antitumor immunity in cancer patients. He has developed novel strategies of regulating immune responses by studying the interaction between T-cells and dendritic cells in murine models and using clinical samples. His work includes ex vivo treatment of donor T-cells to reduce the ability of donor T-cells to cause graft-versus-host disease and graft engineering to select donor dendritic cells that enhance graft-versus-leukemia activities and post-transplant immune reconstitution.

Dr Waller is principal investigator of several ongoing federally funded studies and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. He serves on a number of standing and ad hoc review panels for the National Institutes of Health and is a member of the editorial boards for Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Dr Waller has authored or coauthored more than 95 journal articles and 5 book chapters. He is also a frequent invited lecturer at academic institutions and presenter at national and international conferences.