
Christian Capitini, MD, associate professor, Hematology, Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplant, was recently awarded two separate grants through the 2020-2021 UW Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC) Support Grant Pilot Program competition. In the first, Capitini will serve as Co-PI with Lixin Rui, PhD, Department of Medicine, on the $25,000 pilot project, “EGR1 is a new biomarker in aggressive lymphoma.” Capitini will also serve as Co-PI on a second project with Reinier Hernandez, PhD, Department of Medical Physics. They were awarded $50,000 for the project, “Expressing a bispecific Chimeric Antigen Receptor to enable imaging of CAR-T cell trafficking in vivo.”