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Robert V. B. Emmons, MD

Director, BMT Stem Cell/Bone Marrow Processing Lab

Associate Professor, Medicine

Email: robert.emmons@tuhs.temple.edu

Department of Medicine, Bone Marrow Transplant Program

Dr. Emmons graduated from Carnege-Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1985, and the University of Cincinnati Medical School in 1989. He completed his residency at the University of Michigan in 1992, and a fellowship in hematology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1994.

Additionally, Dr. Emmons was a staff fellow in the Hematology Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes at the NIH and Lieutenant Commander of the United States Public Health Service.

Dr. Emmons was an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, Massachusetts before joining the Temple BMT Program on October 1, 2003.

He is board certified in Hematology and Internal Medicine by the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine).

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Dr. Emmons' clinical specialty includes all forms of hematopoietic malignancy, immunologic disorders, and stem cell transplant.

His clinical and basic science research interests involve hematopoietic stem cell biology, immunoregulatory cells, graft-versus-host disease, and the application of stem cell transplantation to treat cancer and other disorders.

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Dr. Emmons is a reviewer for a number of publications including Blood, Experimental Hematology, and Bone Marrow Transplantation.

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Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

17900280. Wirk B, Klumpp TR, Ulicny J, Herman JH, Gajewski JL, Martin ME, Emmons RV, Mangan KF, Lack of effect of donor-recipient Rh mismatch on outcomes after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Transfusion 48:1(163-8)2008 Jan

16964267. Klumpp TR, Herman JH, Ulicny J, Emmons RV, Martin ME, Mangan KF, Lack of effect of donor-recipient ABO mismatching on outcome following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 38:9(615-20)2006 Nov

11313384. Azzam HS, DeJarnette JB, Huang K, Emmons R, Park CS, Sommers CL, El-Khoury D, Shores EW, Love PE, Fine tuning of TCR signaling by CD5. J Immunol 166:9(5464-72)2001 May 1

10340406. Yu JM, Emmons RV, Hanazono Y, Sellers S, Young NS, Dunbar CE, Expression of interferon-gamma by stromal cells inhibits murine long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cell activity. Exp Hematol 27:5(895-903)1999 May

9853529. Dunbar CE, Kohn DB, Schiffmann R, Barton NW, Nolta JA, Esplin JA, Pensiero M, Long Z, Lockey C, Emmons RV, Csik S, Leitman S, Krebs CB, Carter C, Brady RO, Karlsson S, Retroviral transfer of the glucocerebrosidase gene into CD34+ cells from patients with Gaucher disease: in vivo detection of transduced cells without myeloablation. Hum Gene Ther 9:17(2629-40)1998 Nov 20

9843989. DeJarnette JB, Sommers CL, Huang K, Woodside KJ, Emmons R, Katz K, Shores EW, Love PE, Specific requirement for CD3epsilon in T cell development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95:25(14909-14)1998 Dec 8

9295126. Hanazono Y, Yu JM, Dunbar CE, Emmons RV, Green fluorescent protein retroviral vectors: low titer and high recombination frequency suggest a selective disadvantage. Hum Gene Ther 8:11(1313-9)1997 Jul 20

9166843. Emmons RV, Doren S, Zujewski J, Cottler-Fox M, Carter CS, Hines K, O'Shaughnessy JA, Leitman SF, Greenblatt JJ, Cowan K, Dunbar CE, Retroviral gene transduction of adult peripheral blood or marrow-derived CD34+ cells for six hours without growth factors or on autologous stroma does not improve marking efficiency assessed in vivo. Blood 89:11(4040-6)1997 Jun 1

9133465. Krebsbach PH, Kuznetsov SA, Satomura K, Emmons RV, Rowe DW, Robey PG, Bone formation in vivo: comparison of osteogenesis by transplanted mouse and human marrow stromal fibroblasts. Transplantation 63:8(1059-69)1997 Apr 27

9368333. Dunbar CE, Tisdale J, Yu JM, Soma T, Zujewski J, Bodine D, Sellers S, Cowan K, Donahue R, Emmons R, Transduction of hematopoietic stem cells in humans and in nonhuman primates. Stem Cells 15 Suppl 1:(135-9; discussion 139-40)1997

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