David A. Scheinberg, MD, PhD
Leukemia Specialist & Physician-Scientist
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Areas of Expertise
My Specialties
- Acute and Chronic Leukemias
- Immunotherapy
- Monoclonal Antibodies
About Me
- Chairman, Experimental Therapeutics Center
- Vincent Astor Chair
- Deputy Director, Therapeutic Discovery, Sloan Kettering Institute
Dr. Scheinberg is a physician-scientist who specializes in the care of patients with leukemia and is also investigating new therapeutic approaches to cancer, both in the clinic and in the laboratory. His research is focused on discovering and developing novel, specific immunotherapeutic agents. These include monoclonal antibodies that target the cell surface of cancers, intracellular proteins, engineered cells, targeted radiopharmaceuticals that deliver radioactive particles including alpha particles or alpha particle nanogenerators, targeted nanodevices that selectively kill cancer cells, and therapeutic vaccines that target the oncogene products that cause the cancers.
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Eight different therapeutic agents developed by Dr. Scheinberg in his laboratory have reached human clinical trials, including the first humanized antibodies to treat acute leukemia, the first targeted alpha particle therapies and alpha generators, and the first tumor-specific fusion oncogene product vaccines. His laboratory is also investigating cellular resistance mechanisms to these agents. Dr. Scheinberg has published more than 350 papers, chapters, and books in these fields.
Dr. Scheinberg currently holds the Vincent Astor Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and is a member of the Molecular Pharmacology Program in the Sloan Kettering Institute (SKI), where he also serves as Deputy Director for Therapeutic Disovery. Additionally, Dr. Scheinberg founded and chairs the Experimental Therapeutics and formerly the Nanotechnology Center at MSK. He is a professor of medicine and pharmacology and co-chair of the pharmacology graduate program at Weill-Cornell Medical College and a professor at the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School. He founded and is a Director of the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute of MSK, Cornell, and Rockefeller Universities.
From 1992 until 2002, Dr. Scheinberg was Chief of the Leukemia Service in Memorial Hospital and served as Chairman of Molecular Pharmacology from 2001 through 2022. He has been elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the American Association of Physicians, and the Interurban Club. His other awards include the Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Science Professorship, the Lucille P. Markey Scholarship, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Translational Investigator Awards, and CapCure Awards. He is an advisor to charitable foundations, cancer centers, and biotech companies.
A leukemia specialist is a doctor with special training in diagnosing and treating leukemia.
A physician-scientist is a doctor who also is a researcher.
My Specialties
- Acute and Chronic Leukemias
- Immunotherapy
- Monoclonal Antibodies
- Cancer Vaccines
Education
- MD, PhD, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Residencies
- The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center
Fellowships
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine
- Medical Oncology
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Contact and Location
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Colleagues
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Clinical Trials
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Visit PubMed for a full listing of Dr. Scheinberg’s journal articles. Pubmed is an online index of research papers and other articles from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
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Disclosures
Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.
MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.
David A. Scheinberg discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
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Actinium
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Arvinas, Inc.
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Atengen, Inc.
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Bridge Medicines
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CoImmune, Inc.
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Eureka Therapeutics Inc
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Great Point Partners
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Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.
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Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.
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OncoPep, Inc.
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Pfizer, Inc.
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Repertoire Immune Medicines, Inc.
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Sapience Therapeutics, Inc.
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Sellas Life Science Group
Equity; Fiduciary Role / Position; Intellectual Property Rights
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