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Dr. Katsanis has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Gordon E. Richard Award of the Canadian Cancer Society Fellowship, the Wyeth Award for excellence achieved in Research, the Irvine McQuarrie Research Scholar Award, and the Clinical Oncology Career Development Award of the American Cancer Society. Dr. Katsanis has done extensive research on the topic of tumor-derived chaperone proteins, or heat shock proteins, and their function as unique mediators of specific anti-tumor immunity. He is currently analyzing the cell populations participating in the immune response generated by free solution isoelectric focusing (fs-ief) enriched chaperone protein-peptide complexes, studying the effects of fs-ief enriched chaperone protein-peptide complexes on dendritic cell maturation/activation and assessing their utility as antigens for dendritic cells, and examining the mechanisms by which chaperone protein complexes augment the antigenicity of tumor cells undergoing apoptosis/necrosis. Alone and in cooperation with other members of the medical and scientific community, Dr. Katsanis has published 45 papers and 3 book chapters. He has provided guest lectures in the United States, Canada, Argentina and France. Dr. Katsanis’ professional activities include membership in the American Association for Cancer Research, the International Society for Biological Therapy of Cancer, the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, the American Association of Immunologists, the American Society of Hematology, the American Association of Blood Banks, the Children’s Oncology Group and Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society.
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Emmanuel
Katsanis, M.D., is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology
at the University of Arizona, a member of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada, and a board certified Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist.
He fulfilled requirements for a medical degree at the National University
of Athens, in Athens, Greece, in 1980. His post-doctoral training includes
post-doctoral research in the department of medicine at McGill University
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1981-82), rotating internship at McGill University
(1982-83), pediatric residency at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada (1983-86), a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology
at the University of Ottawa (1986-87), a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology
and bone marrow transplant (BMT) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(1987-90), and post-doctoral research in pediatric hematology/oncology
and BMT at the University of Minnesota (1990-91). Dr. Katsanis’
academic appointments include Instructor of Pediatrics and Assistant Professor
Of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota (1991-97), and he has been
an appointed member of the faculty of the University of Arizona since
1997. Dr. Katsanis currently serves as a member of the medical staff at
the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center (UAHSC). He is also Medical
Director of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Processing Laboratory at University
Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona.