Mark Cobbold MD, PhD, MRCP

Dr. Mark Cobbold, MD, Ph.D., MRCP. is an expert in translational immunology, with a particular focus on tumor immunology, immunotherapy, and diagnostics. He is an Associate Geneticist, at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and a Member of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Through basic research and a coordinated set of clinical trials, Dr. Cobbold has made key discoveries that enhanced our understanding of the mechanisms of deregulation of signaling pathways, malignant transformation, and T cell adoptive transfer immunotherapies.

Dr. Cobbold received his MD in 1995 from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and began his scientific career in Birmingham in 2000 where, under Paul Moss, he studied cellular immunotherapy for patients who received stem cell transplants. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham in 2005. During this period he pioneered a novel T cell selection technology for manipulating and selecting antigen-specific cells for therapeutic use and conducted a successful Phase I clinical trial using cytomegalovirus-specific T-cells.