Marcos Lima MD

Marcos Jose Garcia De Lima, MD, is Director of the Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplant programs at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Before joining the UH Cleveland Medical Center staff in 2012, he served as a Professor of Medicine, at the Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. de Lima earned his Medical Doctor and Master in Internal Medicine degrees at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro School of Medicine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He completed a fellowship in Medical Oncology at the University of Texas, M.D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

A dedicated researcher, Dr. de Lima has extensive experience in developing and conducting clinical trials in the context of stem cell transplantation for cancers beginning in blood-borne tissue, bone marrow, or in the cells of the immune system. His research focuses on strategies to expand the transplantation of blood stem cells from one patient to another and in the treatment and prevention of post-transplant leukemia relapse. Dr. de Lima has approximately 230 published manuscripts and has written chapters for nearly a dozen textbooks. He is currently the acute leukemia working group co-chair, the Center for International Bone Marrow Transplant Research.