Yvette C. Tanhehco PhD, MD, MS, CABP

Dr. Yvette C. Tanhehco is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and the Director of the Cellular Therapy Laboratory and Assistant Director of Transfusion Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/CUIMC. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Microbiology and Molecular and Cell Biology from Cornell University; a Doctor of Philosophy degree in viral oncology from Johns Hopkins University; a Medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh; and a Masters of Science degree in Translational Research from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed both her residency training in Clinical Pathology and fellowship training in Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Tanhehco’s clinical and research interests focus on cellular and gene therapies for sickle cell disease. She is particularly interested in strategies to optimize patients and procedures for apheresis collections of hematopoietic progenitor cells and mononuclear cells to minimize patient adverse events and improve cell yields for drug product manufacturing. She is also interested in blood donations, component manufacturing and transfusion.