Caribou Biosciences, Inc. announced the appointment of Stephen J. Schuster, MD, to its scientific advisory board (SAB). Dr. Schuster is an expert in treating patients with lymphoma and developing novel treatments, including pioneering the development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapies. Dr. Schuster is the Robert and Margarita Louis-Dreyfus Professor of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Lymphoma and the director of the Lymphoma Program and Lymphoma Translational Research at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, with Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center.

With a medical career spanning over 40 years, he is a world-renowned hematologist-oncologist with expertise in lymphoma and related diseases. His clinical and translational research has resulted in over 200 peer reviewed articles and participation in numerous clinical trials. After graduating AOA from Jefferson Medical College and completing his residency at Pennsylvania Hospital, Dr. Schuster completed clinical and research fellowships at the Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research.

In 1989, he became a member of the Cardeza Foundation at Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Schuster joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1998.