Katie Maurer, MD, PhD, grew up in Oklahoma then attended the University of Rochester where she did research in T cell immunodeficiencies. She completed her MD/PhD training at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine in New York, NY, where she studied host defense mechanisms and infection. She completed internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital followed by medical oncology training at the Dana Farber/Mass General Brigham fellowship program, and she is currently an Instructor in Stem Cell Transplantation in the Dana Farber Department of Medical Oncology. Her current research centers on understanding how immune cells from a stem cell transplant donor can eradicate blood cancer cells in patients with leukemia.