Christopher Seet, MD, PhD

Christopher Seet, MD, PhD

Health Sciences Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology

Languages

English

Specialty

Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, Aplastic Anemia and Bone Marrow Failure, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Cellular Therapy and Immunotherapy, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Myeloproliferative Disorders, Multiple Myeloma, Investigational Agents

Institutional Affiliation

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica

Education

Fellowship

Hematology and Oncology, UCLA School of Medicine, 2011 - 2014

Internship

Internal Medicine, Loyola University, 2008 - 2009

Degrees

PhD, UCLA School of Medicine, 2018
MD, University of Sydney Medical School, 2007

Residency

Internal Medicine, Loyola University, 2009 - 2011

Board Certification

Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2011

Contact Information

Clinical Interests

Bone Marrow Transplant, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, General Hematology, Hematologic Malignancies, Leukemia, Multiple Myeloma, Myeloid Metaplasia, Stem Cell Transplant

Scientific Interests

Dr. Christopher Seet is a physician scientist whose research focuses on human immune cell developmentÑin particular, T-cell development from hematopoietic and pluripotent stem cells and the development of stem cell-derived engineered cell therapies for cancer. His lab also is interested in the characterization of new tumor?associated antigens and antigen-specific T-cell receptors for the development of new cellular immunotherapy approaches for cancers. Seet is also a clinical hematologist/oncologist who specializes in hematologic malignancies, bone marrow transplantation and cell therapies.

Highlighted Publications

Montel-Hagen A, Seet CS, Li S, Chick B, Zhu Y, Chang P, Tsai S, Sun V, Lopez S, Chen HC, He C, Chin CJ, Casero D, Crooks GM. Organoid-Induced Differentiation of Conventional T Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2019 Mar 7;24(3):376-389.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2018.12.011. Epub 2019 Jan 17.

Seet CS, He C, Bethune MT, Li S, Chick B, Gschweng EH, Zhu Y, Kim K, Kohn DB, Baltimore D, Crooks GM, Montel-Hagen A. Generation of mature T cells from human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in artificial thymic organoids. Nat Methods. 2017 May;14(5):521-530. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4237. Epub 2017 Apr 3.

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