Terry J. Fry

Pediatric Oncology Branch
The Center for Cancer Research
United States of America

Scientist Immunology
Biography

Terry J. Fry received a B.A. from Colgate University in 1988 and an M.D. from Georgetown University in 1992. After completing a pediatric residency at Georgetown in 1995, he served as Chief Pediatric Resident. From 1996-1999, Dr. Fry undertook fellowship training in pediatric hematology and oncology at Johns Hopkins University. After postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Crystal Mackall, Dr. Fry established a research program focused on the immunology of stem cell transplantation as a platform for cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Fry became Chief of the Division of Blood and Marrow Transplantation at Children's National Medical Center in 2007, a position he held until 2010 when he returned to the Pediatric Oncology Branch as Head of the Hematologic Malignancies Section. He is a member of multiple societies including the American Society of Hematology, the American Association of Immunology and the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and was elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigation. He also serves in leadership positions in the Oncology Strategy Group in the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium and the Cellular Therapy Committee in the Children's Oncology Group. 

Research Intrest

Cancer Biology, Clinical Research, Immunology 

List of Publications
Qin H1, Cho M1, Haso W1, Zhang L1, Tasian SK2, et al. (2015) Eradication of B-ALL using chimeric antigen receptor-expressing T cells targeting the TSLPR oncoprotein. Blood. 126: 629-639.
Jacoby E1, Yang Y1, Qin H1, Chien CD1, Kochenderfer JN2, et al. (2016) Murine allogeneic CD19 CAR T cells harbor potent antileukemic activity but have the potential to mediate lethal GVHD. Blood. 127: 1361-1370.
Jacoby E, Nguyen SM, Fountaine TJ, Welp K, Gryder B, et al. (2016) CD19 CAR immune pressure induces B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukaemia lineage switch exposing inherent leukaemic plasticity. Nat Commun 7: 12320.