Rimas Orentas, PhD

Professor, Pediatrics at Seattle Children's

Dr. Rimas J. Orentas is an investigator at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute and a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine. Research in his academic laboratory focuses on CAR-T approaches towards treating pediatric solid tumors such as rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, and osteosarcoma. He continues to develop CAR-T approaches to hematologic malignancies, and has created 5 first-in-human CAR-T products. Dr. Orentas is also a co-founder of the non-profit organization, Caring Cross, Inc., whose goal is to bring cell and gene therapy approaches to sickle cell disease, HIV, and malignancy to low- and middle-income countries.