Schultz, Kirk

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Dr.

Schultz, Kirk

MD

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Academic Rank:

Head, Childhood Cancer & Blood Research cluster, CFRI, Senior Clinician Scientist, CFRI, Professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics

Affiliation(s):

BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

Location:

BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute

Short Bio

Dr. Schultz’s lab is attempting to harness the immune system to cure child leukemia and to use blood-derived stem cells to cure other life threatening childhood diseases. Currently, blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) is the only successful form of immune therapy for childhood leukemia. Dr. Schultz’s research group focuses on harnessing the immune forces unleashed by BMT to improve immune therapy for childhood leukemia. By increasing their understanding of these important immune forces, they hope to also improve the ability to provide safe tissue transplants when needed. Lastly, the group is focused on developing approaches to extend the ability to use blood-derived stem cells to regenerate damaged tissues, correct the immune system, and save children and adolescents from life threatening childhood diseases.

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Academic Backgrounds


Awards & Recognition

  • Election to Fellowship in the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) – 2014
  • Canadian National Transplant Research Program, CIHR and Genome BC – 2013
  • Geoffrey L. Hammond Lectureship Award, CFRI Member Recognition Awards – 2013
  • NIH/NIAID – U54 grant – 2009-2014
  • CIHR Biomarkers in Chronic GVHD grant – 2009-2014
  • St. Baldrick’s Foundation Grant – 2009-2011
  • NIHLBI/NIC Grant – 2006-2011
  • CIHR/Wyeth Clinical Research Chair in Transplantation – 2003-2008

Selected Publications

  • Suttorp M, Yaniv I, Schultz KR. Controversies in the treatment of CML in children and adolescents: TKIs versus BMT? Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2011 Jan;17(1 Suppl):S115-22.
  • Goyal RK, Lin Y, Schultz KR, Ferrell RE, Kim Y, Fairfull L, Livote E, Yanik G, Atlas M. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha gene polymorphisms are associated with severity of acute graft-versus-host disease following matched unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation in children: a Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium study. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2010 Jul;16(7):927-936.e1. Epub 2010 Jan 25.
  • Pulsipher MA, Horwitz EM, Haight AE, Kadota R, Chen AR, Frangoul H, Cooper LJ, Jacobsohn DA, Goyal RK, Mitchell D, Nieder ML, Yanik G, Cowan MJ, Soni S, Gardner S, Shenoy S, Taylor D, Cairo M, Schultz KR. Advancement of pediatric blood and marrow transplantation research in North America: priorities of the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2010 Sep;16(9):1212-21. Epub 2010 Jan 14. Review.
  • Schultz KR, Prestidge T, Camitta B.Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children: new and emerging treatment options. Expert Rev Hematol. 2010 Dec;3(6):731-42.
  • Shaw PJ, Kan F, Woo Ahn K, Spellman SR, Aljurf M, Ayas M, Burke M, Cairo MS, Chen AR, Davies SM, Frangoul H, Gajewski J, Gale RP, Godder K, Hale GA, Heemskerk MB, Horan J, Kamani N, Kasow KA, Chan KW, Lee SJ, Leung WH, Lewis VA, Miklos D, Oudshoorn M, Petersdorf EW, Ringdén O, Sanders J, Schultz KR, Seber A, Setterholm M, Wall DA, Yu L, Pulsipher MA.Outcomes of pediatric bone marrow transplantation for leukemia and myelodysplasia using matched sibling, mismatched related, or matched unrelated donors. Blood. 2010 Nov 11;116(19):4007-15. Epub 2010 Jul 29.
  • Rolf N, Kariminia A, Ivison S, Schultz KR. Therapeutic Potential for Toll-Like-Receptor 2 Agonists in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (pre-B ALL): Induction of Apoptosis and Anti-ALL Immunogenicity. (ASH Travel Award) 52. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, Dec.3-7, 2010, Orlando/FL, USA, Blood 116, 21: 381 (2010).
  • Rolf N, Kariminia A, Ivison S, Schultz KR. In Vitro Studies On The Impact Of TLR2 Agonists On The Cytotoxic Potential Of Chemotherapy And Immune Responses In pre-B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). 2nd International Conference on Immunotherapy in Pediatric Oncology, Oct.11-12, 2010 Houston/TX, USA.
  • Woodard P, Carpenter PA, Davies SM, Gross TG, He W, Zhang MJ, Horn BN, Margolis DA, Perentesis JP, Sanders JE, Schultz KR, Seber A, Woods WG, Eapen M. Unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation for myelodysplastic syndrome in children. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2010 Aug 30.
  • Duval M, Klein JP, He W, Cahn JY, Cairo M, Camitta BM, Kamble R, Copelan E, de Lima M, Gupta V, Keating A, Lazarus HM, Litzow MR, Marks DI, Maziarz RT, Rizzieri DA, Schiller G, Schultz KR, Tallman MS, Weisdorf D. Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for acute leukemia in relapse or primary induction failure. J Clin Oncol. 2010 Aug 10;28(23):3730-8. Epub 2010 Jul 12.
  • Schultz KR. Haploidentical transplantation in children. Blood. 2010 Apr 29;115(17):3420-1
  • Baird K, Cooke K, Schultz KR. Chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in children. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2010 Feb;57(1):297-322. Review.
  • Cuvelier GD, Kariminia A, Fujii H, Aslanian S, Wall D, Goldman F, Grupp SA, Dunn SE, Krailo M, Shapiro LH, Gilman A, Schultz KR. Anti-CD13 Abs in children with extensive chronic GVHD and their relation to soluble CD13 after allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation from a Children’s Oncology Groups Study, ASCT0031. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2010 Nov;45(11):1653-7. Epub 2010 Mar 1.
  • Lehman AM, Schultz KR, Poskitt K, Bjornson B, Keyes R, Waters PJ, Clarke LA, Everett R, McConnell D, Stockler S. Intracranial calcification after cord blood neonatal transplantation for krabbe disease. Neuropediatrics. 2009 Aug;40(4):189-91. Epub 2010 Feb 4.
  • Medyouf H, Gao X, Armstrong F, Gusscott S, Liu Q, Gedman AL, Matherly LH, Schultz KR, Pflumio F, You MJ, Weng AP. Acute T-cell leukemias remain dependent on Notch signaling despite PTEN and INK4A/ARF loss. Blood. 2010 Feb 11;115(6):1175-84. Epub 2009 Dec 11.
  • Reid, GDS, Grupp, S, Schultz KR.: Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy In: Carroll W and Finlay J, eds. Cancer in Children and Adolescents Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury Mass; 2009. Chap 4.
  • Schultz KR.: Pathophysiology Of Chronic GVHD In: Vogelsang G, Pavletic S, eds. Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease: Principles And Practice Of Interdisciplinary Management Cambridge Press; 2009.Chap 3,p17-45.
  • Cuvelier GD, Schultz KR, Davis J, Hirschfeld AF, Junker AK, Tan R, Turvey SE.: Optimizing outcomes of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe combined immunodeficiency. Clin Immunol. 2009 May;131(2):179-88.
  • Griffith LM, Pavletic SZ, Lee SJ, Martin PJ, Schultz KR, Vogelsang GB.: Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease–implementation of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Criteria for Clinical Trials. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008 Apr;14(4):379-84.
  • Hunger SP, Loh KM, Baker KS, Schultz KR.: Controversies of and unique issues in hematopoietic cell transplantation for infant leukemia. Biol Blood Transplant. 2008 Jan;15(1 Supp):79-83.
  • Grupp SA, Frangoul H, Wall D, Pulsipher MA, Levine JE, Schultz KR. Use of G-CSF in Matched Sibling Donor Pediatric Allogeneic Transplantation: A Consensus Statement from the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Transplant Discipline Committee and Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium (PBMTC) Executive Committee. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2006 Apr;46(4):414-21.
  • Schultz KR, Miklos DB, Fowler D, Cooke K,  Shizuru J, Emmanuel E, Holler E, Ferrara J, Shulman H, Lee SJ, Martin P, Filipovich AH, Flowers MED, Weisdorf D, Couriel D, Lachenbruch PA, Mittleman B, Vogelsang GB15, Pavletic SZ Towards Biomarkers For Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease: NIH Consensus Development Project On Criteria For Clinical Trials In Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease: III Biomarker Working Group Report  Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2006 Feb;12(2):126-137.
  • Jastaniah WA, Alessandri AJ, Reid GSD, Schultz KR HLA-DM expression is elevated in ETV6-AML1 translocation positive pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia Leukemia Res 2005 Sep 24.
  • Reid GS, She K, Terrett L, Food MR, Trudeau JD, Schultz KR. CpG stimulation of precursor B lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia induces a distinct change in costimulatory molecule expression and shifts allogeneic T cells towards a Th1 response. Blood. 2005 105:3641-7.
  • Shier LR, Schultz KR, Imren S, Regan J, Issekutz A, Sadek I, Gilman A, Panzarella T, Eaves CJ, Couban S. Differential Effects of G-CSF on Marrow and Blood-Derived Hematopoietic and Immune Cell Populations in Healthy Human Donors. Biol Blood Marrow Transplantation St ;10(9):624-34,2004.
  • Schultz KR, Reid G. The Unique Biology and Characteristics of TEL-AML1 (ETV6-CBFA2) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Potential Therapeutic Approaches. ASCO Educational Book (In press), 2004.
  • Reid GSD, Terrett L, Allessandri A, Grubb S, Stork L, Seibel N, Gaynon P, Schultz KR. Altered Patterns of T Cell Cytokine Production Induced by Relapsed Pre-B ALL Cells/ :eil Res 2-3’27(12):1135-42.
  • Schultz KR, Su WN, Hsiao C-C, Jevon G, Bader S, Gilman AL. Chloroquine Prevention Of Murine MHC Disparate Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease Correlates With Inhibition Of Spleenic Response To CpG Oligodeoxynucleotides And Alterations In T Cell Cytokine Production, Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 8(12):648-55, 2002.
  • Alessandri AJ, Reid GS, Bader SA, Massing BG, Sorensen PH, Schultz KR. ETV6 (TEL)-AML1 pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cells are associated with a distinct antigen-presenting phenotype. Br J Haematol. 116:266-72, 2002.
  • Reid G, Bharya S and Schultz KR. Phosphoinositide-dependent and -independent natural cell killing of pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells by IL-2 activated NK cells and NK-92ci Clin Exp Immunol. 129:265-271, 2002.
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Research

  • Childhood Diseases
  • Immune system
  • Childhood leukemia
  • Blood and marrow transplantation
  • Tumour immunology
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