Edwin M. Horwitz
MD, PhD
Dr. Horwitz is a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta where he also serves as Director of Transplantation Biology and Therapeutics.
Titles and Roles
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Director of Transplantation Biology and Therapeutics
- Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center
- Pediatric Oncologist
- Pediatric Oncology
- Research Program
- Cancer Immunology
Biography
Edwin M. Horwitz, MD, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine. A board certified pediatric hematologist/oncologist, Dr. Horwitz serves as Director of Transplantation Biology and Therapeutics at Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
Dr. Horwitz is a member of the Cancer Immunology research program at Winship Cancer Institute.
Education
Dr. Horwitz received his MD and PhD from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where he completed postdoctoral research in Biochemistry. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at Saint Louis Children's Hospital and his fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Research
Dr. Horwitz's research efforts are currently focused in two areas, 1) studying interferon gamma primed mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) as prophylaxis for graft versus host disease after bone marrow transplantation for leukemia, and 2) elucidating the specific mechanism(s) by which MSC prevent the alloreactivity underlying graft versus host disease without impairing the curative graft-versus-leukemia effect or the antiviral immunity after bone marrow transplantation.
Publications
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