Hospital Research Teams

The Precision Cellular Therapy Laboratory

Overview

Roni Shouval
Director

The Precision Cellular Therapy Laboratory is dedicated to advancing the understanding and effectiveness and safety of cellular therapies. Our research primarily focuses on uncovering drivers and mechanisms of resistance and toxicity that challenge the success of cellular therapies such as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation. By integrating multiomic approaches and novel computational techniques, we strive to identify and decode the biological drivers of disease resistance and adverse outcomes. Our goal is to translate these insights into more precise and safer therapeutic strategies, ultimately enhancing patient outcomes in hematologic malignancies and beyond.

Current Projects: 

  • Synthesizing multimodal data for prediction of CAR-T cell therapy outcome
  • Uncovering genomic drivers of resistance to CAR-T cell therapy in lymphoma
  • Dynamic Modeling of Cellular Therapy Toxicity
Shouval Lab Team Members

Publications

2026

Tumor CD19 expression determines distinct clinical outcomes after CD19 CAR T-cell therapy in large B-cell lymphoma. Corona M, Gillmor A, Argyropoulos KV, Fei T, Sotelo-Alva MI, Alhomoud M, et al. Blood Cancer Discov. 2026 Aug 31. doi:10.1158/2643-3230.BCD-25-0501.

Outcomes of salvage therapy after early-line CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell failure in large B-cell lymphoma. Escribano Serrat S, Ip A, Sanz J, Gomez-Llobell M, Einarsdottir S, Marcus R, et al. Transplant Cell Ther. 2026;32(8):950.e1-950.e16. doi:10.1016/j.jtct.2026.04.003.

Safety and outcomes of CD19 CAR-T cell therapy in splenectomized patients with B-cell lymphomas. Shibli N, Einarsdottir S, Fei T, Shouval R, Perales MA, Gomez-Llobell M, et al. Transplant Cell Ther. 2026 Jun 26:S2666-6367(26)00521-X. doi:10.1016/j.jtct.2026.06.044.

Landmark-based evaluations of long-term outcomes after CD19 CAR T-cell therapy in large B-cell lymphoma. Gomez-Llobell M, Shouval R, Brown S, Goan-Accav N, Devlin S, Corona M, et al. Transplant Cell Ther. 2026;32(6):676.e1-676.e14. doi:10.1016/j.jtct.2026.02.058.

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People

Members

Aaron Gillmor
Computational Biologist
Assistant Attending
Eugene Brailovski
Adult Cancer Immunotherapy Fellow
Visiting Investigator
Alessandro Criscimanna
Research Fellow
Sigrun Einarsdottir
Visiting Investigator
Silvia Escribano Serrat
Visiting Investigator
Assistant Attending Biostatistician
Research Fellow
Clinical and Laboratory Hematologist
Administrative Assistant
Research Fellow
Resident Researcher
Efrat Luttwak
Attending Physician and Clinical Investigator
Noriko Nishimura
Advanced Clinical Fellow
Instructor, Adult BMT Service
Kai Rejeski
Research Fellow
Visting investigator
Oncology Fellow
Visiting Investigator
Alfredo Rivas-Delgado
Senior Research Scientist
Visiting Investigator

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