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Alice Bertaina is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and works primarily within the fields of Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Hematology, Immunology, Oncology, Molecular Biology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's work is centered on topics related to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, immune cell function and interaction, and CAR-T cell therapy research. Additional areas of focus include acute lymphoblastic leukemia research, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, acute myeloid leukemia research, and T-cell and B-cell immunology.

Frequent publication venues for Alice Bertaina's research include:

  • Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
  • Cytotherapy
  • Blood
  • Bone Marrow Transplantation
  • Blood Advances

Among recent publications are:

  • Standardizing Definitions of Hematopoietic Recovery, Graft Rejection, Graft Failure, Poor Graft Function, and Donor Chimerism in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A Report on Behalf of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, 2021, Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
  • γδ T Cells: The Ideal Tool for Cancer Immunotherapy, 2020, Cells
  • CRISPR-based gene editing enables FOXP3 gene repair in IPEX patient cells, 2020, Science Advances
  • Engineering the Bridge between Innate and Adaptive Immunity for Cancer Immunotherapy: Focus on γδ T and NK Cells, 2020, Cells
  • Genome editing of donor-derived T-cells to generate allogenic chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells: Optimizing αβ T cell-depleted haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, 2020, Haematologica

Collaborations occur regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Giulia Barbarito
  • David C. Shyr
  • Jaap Jan Boelens
  • Kenneth I. Weinberg
  • Robertson Parkman

Best Publications

  • HLA-haploidentical stem cell transplantation after removal of αβ+ T and B cells in children with nonmalignant disorders

    Alice Bertaina;Pietro Merli;Sergio Rutella;Sergio Rutella;Daria Pagliara

  • Killer Ig-Like Receptors (KIRs): Their Role in NK Cell Modulation and Developments Leading to Their Clinical Exploitation.

    Daniela Pende;Michela Falco;Massimo Vitale;Claudia Cantoni;Claudia Cantoni

  • Outcome of children with acute leukemia given HLA-haploidentical HSCT after αβ T-cell and B-cell depletion

    Franco Locatelli;Pietro Merli;Daria Pagliara;Giuseppina Li Pira

  • Multiple infusions of mesenchymal stromal cells induce sustained remission in children with steroid‐refractory, grade III–IV acute graft‐versus‐host disease

    Lynne M. Ball;Maria E. Bernardo;Helene Roelofs;Maarten J. D. van Tol

  • γδ T cell reconstitution after HLA-haploidentical hematopoietic transplantation depleted of TCR-αβ+/CD19+ lymphocytes

    Irma Airoldi;Alice Bertaina;Ignazia Prigione;Alessia Zorzoli

  • Co-infusion of ex vivo-expanded, parental MSCs prevents life-threatening acute GVHD, but does not reduce the risk of graft failure in pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic umbilical cord blood transplantation.

    M E Bernardo;L M Ball;A M Cometa;H Roelofs

  • Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in thalassemia major: results of a reduced-toxicity conditioning regimen based on the use of treosulfan

    Maria Ester Bernardo;Eugenia Piras;Adriana Vacca;Giovanna Giorgiani

  • Infections by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in SCT recipients: a nationwide retrospective survey from Italy.

    C Girmenia;G. M. Rossolini;G. M. Rossolini;A. Piciocchi;A. Bertaina

  • Human Cytomegalovirus Infection Promotes Rapid Maturation of NK Cells Expressing Activating Killer Ig–like Receptor in Patients Transplanted with NKG2C−/− Umbilical Cord Blood

    Mariella Della Chiesa;Michela Falco;Alice Bertaina;Letizia Muccio

  • KIR B haplotype donors confer a reduced risk for relapse after haploidentical transplantation in children with ALL

    Lena Oevermann;Sebastian U. Michaelis;Markus Mezger;Peter Lang

  • Standardizing Definitions of Hematopoietic Recovery, Graft Rejection, Graft Failure, Poor Graft Function, and Donor Chimerism in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A Report on Behalf of the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

    Mohamed A. Kharfan-Dabaja;Ambuj Kumar;Ernesto Ayala;Mahmoud Aljurf

  • Incidence, Risk Factors and Outcome of Pre-engraftment Gram-Negative Bacteremia After Allogeneic and Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: An Italian Prospective Multicenter Survey

    Corrado Girmenia;Alice Bertaina;Alfonso Piciocchi;Katia Perruccio

  • Unrelated donor vs HLA-haploidentical α/β T-cell- and B-cell-depleted HSCT in children with acute leukemia.

    Alice Bertaina;Marco Zecca;Barbara Buldini;Nicoletta Sacchi

  • γδ T Cells: The Ideal Tool for Cancer Immunotherapy

    Mahboubeh Yazdanifar;Giulia Barbarito;Alice Bertaina;Irma Airoldi

  • Analysis of memory-like natural killer cells in human cytomegalovirus-infected children undergoing αβ+T and B cell-depleted hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for hematological malignancies

    Letizia Muccio;Alice Bertaina;Michela Falco;Daniela Pende

  • Cellular and molecular basis of haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the successful treatment of high-risk leukemias: role of alloreactive NK cells

    Franco Locatelli;Daniela Pende;Maria Cristina Mingari;Alice Bertaina

  • Negative depletion of α/β+ T cells and of CD19+ B lymphocytes: a novel frontier to optimize the effect of innate immunity in HLA-mismatched hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

    Franco Locatelli;Aurelie Bauquet;Giuseppe Palumbo;Francesca Moretta

  • Outcome of hematopoietic cell transplantation for DNA double-strand break repair disorders

    James Slack;Michael H Albert;Dmitry Balashov;Bernd H Belohradsky

  • CRISPR-based gene editing enables FOXP3 gene repair in IPEX patient cells

    M. Goodwin;E. Lee;U. Lakshmanan;S. Shipp

  • Cytotoxic activity of the casein kinase 2 inhibitor CX-4945 against T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: targeting the unfolded protein response signaling

    F. Buontempo;E. Orsini;Lr Martins;I. Antunes

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorenzo Moretta
Lorenzo Moretta Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital
Marco Zecca
Marco Zecca University of Pavia
Michela Falco
Michela Falco Istituto Giannina Gaslini
Sergio Rutella
Sergio Rutella Nottingham Trent University
Alessandro Moretta
Alessandro Moretta University of Genoa
Daniela Pende
Daniela Pende University of Genoa
Francesco Locatelli
Francesco Locatelli University of Pavia
Andrea Pession
Andrea Pession University of Bologna
Maria Grazia Roncarolo
Maria Grazia Roncarolo Stanford University
Franco Locatelli
Franco Locatelli Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

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