Name: Filippo Milano

Contact information: fmilano@fredhutch.org; 206-667-5925

Current position held: Associate Professor

Subject area, specialties: hematology, cord blood transplantation

Institutional affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer  Center

My background includes a medical degree with honors in 2001 from the University “la Sapienza” of Rome where I graduated first in my class.  I have been a staff physician at the University Hospital in Rome from 2001 to 2008 caring for patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In 2005 I began a PhD in Hematology at University “La Sapienza”. I moved to Seattle in 2008 to complete my PhD. I finished my PhD in 2010, but I stayed in Seattle where I started a fellowship in Hematology in 2013. I have published over 80 manuscripts in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals, including a first author paper in the New England Journal of Medicine. I secured NIH and Foundations funding to run investigator-initiated studies. I am member of the American Society of Hematology and of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy serving in committees for both societies.   Since 2020 I am an Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center & University of Washington. I currently serve as Director of the cord blood transplantation program and as Scientific Director of the Cellular Therapy lab. at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.