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Effie Petersdorf, MD

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center;

Effie Wang Petersdorf, MD is a Professor at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; Professor, Division of Oncology and Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, and Attending Physician. She holds the Madeline Dabney Adams Endowed Chair in AML Research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and is Director of the Unrelated Donor Transplant Program. Dr. Petersdorf earned her AB in 1978 from Harvard University, and M.D. in 1982 from McGill University in Montreal. She completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in oncology at the University of Washington before joining the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in 1987. Dr. Petersdorf has devoted her research to the immunogenetics of the HLA system in transplantation. President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1999. Dr. Petersdorf is the recipient of the 2002 Mechtild-Harf Prize, DKMS; 2016 Ceppellini Award, the European Federation for Immunogenetics; the 2016 Norma Ramsey Lecturer, the University of Minnesota; the 2018 Hilliard Festenstein Lecturer, the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics; the 2019 Richard O’Reilly Lecturer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; the 2019 Rose Payne Award, American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, the 2020 E Donnall Thomas Lecturer, the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, the 2021 Emil von Behring Award from the German Society for Transfusion Medicine and Immune Haematology, and the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. She is past president of the World Marrow Donor Association and the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy.

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