Dr. Aude Chapuis is an expert in blood stem cell transplantation and immunotherapy. She cares for patients undergoing these treatments and leads clinical trials of new immunotherapies in which patients receive immune cells called T cells that can detect and destroy diseased cells. In her research laboratory, she and her team investigate the factors that make T cell therapy successful and use that knowledge to develop new immunotherapies that are even safer and more effective. Her ongoing projects are advancing T cell therapies for patients with leukemias or certain solid tumors, including melanoma and Merkel cell carcinoma, another skin cancer.
Dr. Chapuis is an Attending Physician on the Autologous and Allogeneic Transplant Services in the Fred Hutch Bone Marrow Transplant Program at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), a cancer treatment center that unites doctors from Fred Hutch, University of Washington Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital. She treats patients in both the inpatient and outpatient clinics and consults with patients who are contemplating transplantation. She also attends to patients who receive T-cell infusions in the context of adoptive immunotherapy trials at the SCCA The Bezos Family Immunotherapy Clinic.