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Colleen Delaney, MD, MSc

Deverra Therapeutics

Dr. Colleen Delaney is Scientific Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Executive Vice President of Research and Development of Deverra Therapeutics, Inc., a cellular therapy company focused on development of universal donor, off-the-shelf cell therapies for patients with hematologic malignancies and other critical diseases. Additionally, she is the Chief Scientific and Medical Officer for Coeptis Therapeutics. Dr. Delaney is a stem cell transplant physician and an Affiliate and former Professor of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Clinical Research Division, where she was PI of an NIH/government funded laboratory and where she established and became the Director of the Program in Cord Blood Transplant and Cord Blood Research at the Fred Hutch/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Dr. Delaney’s research interests focus on the development of methods to expand the number of umbilical cord blood stem cells and to then direct these cells to further differentiate into mature blood and immune cells for clinical application. She has more than 20 years of experience in the development of cord blood derived allogeneic cell therapies from bench to bedside and is an inventor on numerous patents.

Dr. Delaney received her MSc from Oxford University and her MD from Harvard Medical School and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Damon Runyon Foundation Clinical Investigator Award, the Dr. Ali Al-Johani Award in recognition of exemplary clinical medical care and compassion to patients and families, the Seattle Business Journal’s Leaders in Health Care Award for Outstanding Medical Research, the Seattle American Women in Science’s Award for the Scientific Advancement and Leadership in STEM and she is a 2019 Inductee into the Washington Life Science Hall of Fame.

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