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Marcus Center for Cell Therapy Manufacturing Facility

Our unique head-to-toe approach aims to provide a variety of novel cell therapy treatments to address unmet medical needs for pediatric diseases. Our state-of-the-art GMP manufacturing lab provides services to facilitate translation all the way to Phase 2 of cellular therapy manufacturing for clinical trials.

Meet Our Investigators

Our Services:

•New Protocol/Product Development

•Pre-Clinical Scale-up/IND enabling engineering and validation runs

•Quality Control testing and Quality Assurance Review

•Manufacturing of Master Cell Banks and Working Cell Banks

•Manufacturing of:

Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
Dendritic Cells
Engineered TCR
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cells
Gamma-Delta T cells
Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes

Meet the Team

H. Trent Spencer, PhD

Co-Director of Marcus Center for Cellular Therapy

hspence@emory.edu

Muna Qayed, MD

Interim Co-Director of Marcus Center for Cellular Therapy, Section Chief of BMT

MQAYED@emory.edu

Kevin Loop-Tapp, PMP

Program & Research Manager

kloopta@emory.edu

Upcoming Events

Mon Apr 201:00PM-2:00PM

CCIV Seminar- Poonam Sampat Kanojiya, PhD

Thu Apr 2312:00PM-1:00PM

Marcus Autism Center / Behavioral Mental Health Grand Rounds 4/23/26

Thu Apr 231:00PM-2:00PM

CF-AIR Seminar Series: Lisa Staimez, PhD, MPH, Priya Vellanki, MD, and David Reiter, PhD

Mon Apr 271:00PM-2:00PM

CCIV Seminar-Pragati Prasad

Tue Apr 2812:30PM-1:30PM

Aflac Seminar - Rosa Nguyen, MD, PhD 4/28/2026

Thu Apr 3012:00PM-1:00PM

Inaugural Ann C. Mertens, PhD REACH for the Stars Women in Science Annual Lecture: Sonja Rasmussen, MD, MS 4/30/26

Mon May 111:00PM-2:00PM

CCIV Seminars- Jonathan Stiles, MD (Morehouse)

Thu May 1412:00PM-1:00PM

Marcus Autism Center / Behavioral Mental Health Grand Rounds 5/14/26

Fri May 158:00AM-5:00PM

8th Annual Pediatric Early Career Researcher Conference

Mon May 181:00PM-2:00PM

CCIV Seminar- Lingling Xu

Thu May 2812:00PM-1:00PM

Marcus Autism Center / Behavioral Mental Health Grand Rounds 5/28/26

Mon Jun 11:00PM-2:00PM

Joint CCIV/CF-Air Seminar

Mon Jun 81:00PM-2:00PM

CCIV Seminar-Prashant Bajpai

Thu Jun 1112:00PM-1:00PM

Marcus Autism Center / Behavioral Mental Health Grand Rounds 6/11/26

Mon Jun 151:00PM-2:00PM

CCIV Seminar- Collin Dubick

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