Dr. Albert Donnenberg is a Professor of Infectious Disease and Microbiology in the Graduate School of Public Health and a Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biotechnology at the Université Paris Diderot. In addition to teaching, Dr. Donnenberg is the Director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Flow Cytometry Facility as well as both the UPMC Hematopoietic Stem Cell Laboratory and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Flow Cytometry Facility. He is also the Co-Leader of the UPCI Cancer Stem Cell Program.
Dr. Donnenberg received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado – Boulder and his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, where he studied infectious disease epidemiology. Dr. Donnenberg spent many years at Johns Hopkins, where he became an Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, before he came to the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Donnenberg's research focuses are: immunologic consequences of autologous transplantation in systemic sclerosis; haplo-identical HSCT; use of bone marrow derived and peripheral blood derived stem and progenitor cells for regenerative therapy; the cancer stem-cell hypothesis; the identification of therapeutic targets on cancer stem cells; and technological advances in flow cytometry. He is on the editorial board of Clinical and Applied Immunology Reviews, and he is certified as an inspection team leader of the College of American Pathologists.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. Albert Donnenberg
Phone: (412) 623-3256
Email: donnenbergad@upmc.edu