Stefan K. Barta, MD, MRCP(UK) underwent medical training at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfort, Germany. He completed his internal medicine training at the St. Bartholomew’s and The Royal London Hospital, UK and his hematology-oncology fellowship at the Montefiore Medical Center/Albert-Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. Previously, Dr Barta led the T-cell lymphoma program at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and is in charge of the T Cell Lymphoma Program. His research interests are focused on novel therapies in T-cell and other aggressive lymphomas. He was awarded with an American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Young Investigator Award in 2010. Since then, he has led and/or developed multiple investigational clinical trials for lymphoma either as study chair, principal investigator or site principal investigator. He serves on the lymphoma committees for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG-ACRIN) and AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC) and is a member of the AMC steering committee. He is reviewer for several oncological journals and is on the editorial board for “Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia”.

Assoc. Prof. Stefan K Barta has received financial support/sponsorship for research support, consultation, or speaker fees from the following companies: