Nicoletta Cieri

Nicoletta Cieri, MD, PhD is a physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on understanding and harnessing the power of the immune system to fight blood cancers while reducing the harmful side effects that can occur after bone marrow transplantation.

Originally from Italy, Dr. Cieri earned her MD and PhD at San Raffaele University in Milan, where she characterized a new type of long-lived immune cell known as “memory stem T cell,” which has become a key model for developing next-generation cancer immunotherapies.

At Dana-Farber, she now applies cutting-edge genomic and computational tools to personalize transplant and immune-based treatments, with the goal of improving outcomes and preventing complications for patients with leukemia and other blood disorders.

Her work, published in leading journals such as Nature Biotechnology, has earned international recognition, including the Jon J. van Rood Award from the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation and career awards from the American Society of Hematology and the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.