Assistant Professor
Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, United States
Ben Samelson-Jones, MD, PhD is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and the University of Pennsylvania and a pediatric hematologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He provides medical care for children with blood diseases with a special interest in the children with hemophilia. He is the Associate Director of the Clinical In Vivo Gene Therapy program at CHOP, a member of the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics, and faculty for Gene Therapy and Vaccine (GTV) Graduate Program.
He is a principal investigator on clinical gene therapy trials for hemophilia A and hemophilia B and has translational laboratory focused on developing novel treatments for bleeding disorders. His laboratory is supported by funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Hemophilia Foundation, as well as by a number of sponsored research agreements with biotech partners.