Ronald Eugene Gress MD

Chief, Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch, CCR, NCI, NIH

10 Crc3 3330NihBethesda, MD 20892
Phone+1 301-496-1791

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Education & Training

Baylor College of MedicineClass of 1975

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Certifications & Licensure

MD State Medical License 1978 - 2024
TX State Medical License 1975 - 1999
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Medical Oncology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Elected Member The American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1991
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Clinical Trials

Chemotherapy and Progenitor Cell Transplantation to Treat Inflammatory Breast Cancer Start of enrollment: 1996 Jul 12
COMPLETED
PHASE1
Genetic Analysis of Brain Tumors Start of enrollment: 2002 Mar 01
TERMINATED
Interleukin-7 in Treating Patients With Refractory Solid Tumors
COMPLETED
PHASE1

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

3 citations
Phase 1/2 study of high-dose palifermin for GVHD prophylaxis in patients undergoing HLA-matched unrelated donor HCT.
Eduard Schulz, Lauren M Curtis, Noa G Holtzman, Seth M Steinberg, Kaska Wloka
Blood. 2025-08-21
1 citations
Disruption of Notch signaling by KGF induces a developmental pause in thymocytes.
Ruifeng Teng, Francis A Flomerfelt, Ping Xue, Anjali Chandroth, Constance Tom Noguchi
Frontiers in Immunology. 2025-01-01
7 citations
High-dose alemtuzumab and cyclosporine vs tacrolimus, methotrexate, and sirolimus for chronic graft-versus-host disease prevention.
Noa G Holtzman, Lauren M Curtis, Rachel B Salit, Brian C Shaffer, Filip Pirsl
Blood Advances. 2024-08-27

Journal Articles

Impact of the 2014 NIH Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease Scoring Criteria Modifications Assessed in a Large Cohort of Severely Affected Patients
Lauren M Curtis, Galen O Joe, Jacqueline W Mays, Ann Berger, Pamela Stratton, Ronald E Gress, Sandra A Mitchell, Steven Z Pavletic, Kristin Baird, Nature

Abstracts/Posters

T Cells Expressing an Anti-B-Cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA) Chimeric Antigen Receptor with a Fully-Human Heavy-Chain-Only Antigen Recognition Domain Induce Remissions ...
Ronald E. Gress, 61st Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting, Orlando, FL, 12/8/2019

Grant Support

Preclinical evaluation of a homing endonuclease gene therapy for adRP in models of P23H retinopathy.UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE2023–2028
Neurexin Isoforms in Retina Structure and FunctionUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE2025–2027
Glycine subunit specific inhibition and ganglion cell visual responsesUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE2019–2025
Etib Clinical TrialsNational Cancer Institute2011
Etib Clinical Research CoreNational Cancer Institute2011