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UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

Background data

Program Type : Adult Program
FACT Approved: Yes
Year CAR T-cell Therapy Program Opened:

Location Info

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
3855 Health Sciences Drive 0960
La Jolla, , 92093
Phone Number : (858) 822-6600
Website : https://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/cancer/programs/hematologic/BMT/Pages/default.aspx

CAR T-cell therapies performed

Numbers displayed are the most recent data provided by this center.
Year 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Number performed 13 30 42 46 -

Medical Director

Name Phone
Edward Ball, MD (858) 822-6600

Physician

Name Phone
Fotis Asimakopoulos, MD, PhD (858) 822-6600
Caitlin Costello, MD (858) 822-6600
Aaron Goodman, MD (858) 822-6600
Ayad Hamdan, MD (858) 822-6600
Autumn Jeong, MD (858) 822-6600
Divya Koura, MD (858) 822-6600
Hojun Li, MD, PhD
James Mangan, MD, PhD (858) 822-6600
Carolyn Mulroney, MD (858) 822-6600
Tiffany Tanaka, MD (858) 822-6600
Dimitrios Tzachanis, MD, PhD (858) 822-6600

Coordinator

Name Phone
Mike Hurley, RN, BSN, OCN (858) 246-5879
Bailie Piasecki, RN (858) 534-6851

Social Worker

Name Phone
Melissa Pricer, LCSW

Diseases treated by CAR T-cell therapy

  • Leukemia, acute lymphoblastic
  • Lymphoma
  • Mantle Cell Lymphoma
  • Multiple Myeloma

CAR T-Cell products

  • Abecma (idecabtagene vicleucil, ide-cel)
  • Breyanzi (lisocabtagene maraleucel, liso-cel)
  • Carvykti (ciltacabtagene autoleucel, cita-cel)
  • Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel, tisa-cel)
  • Tecartus (brexucabtagene autoleucel, brexu-cel)
  • Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel, axi-cel)