Industry Experts

Rimas J. Orentas, PhD, is Co-founder, Board Chair, and CSO of Caring Cross, a non-profit implementing engineered cell therapies for sickle cell disease, HIV, and hematologic malignancy. Dr. Orentas also holds an adjunct appointment in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has led teams that delivered 6 first-in-human CAR-T products. Previous positions include Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Director of the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research (SCRI); Scientific Director of Lentigen, a Miltenyi Biotec Company; Associate Scientist, Pediatric Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH, and faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin.