Ralph Quinones, MD

My clinical interests have always centered on improving the care and outcomes of allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) for all patients in need of an HSCT. As our BMT Team has grown, I am now able to focus on HSCT for children with life-threatening Non-Malignant Disorders. Specifically, as a Pediatric Immunologist, I have passion for HSCT to help children born with inherited Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders (PID), which includes all forms of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Diseases (SCID, Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome, and many more). As well as the more recently recognized PIDs of Immune-Dysregulation (such as IPEX, Gain of Function STAT3, and other even rarer disorders that we are discovering with current gene sequencing techniques). I believe that better understanding the causes of both the Immunodeficiency PIDs and Immune-dysregulation PIDs will result in direct improvement in the outcomes for allogeneic HSCT in each group. My other clinical interests are in constantly improving the results for Unrelated Cord Blood Transplantation. Here, I have started with the source and am a Founder and Medical Director of the University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank, one of the largest public CB Banks in the world that has provided life-saving unrelated CB grafts for children and adults in BMT Centers around the world. My other interests include suing the immune system to fight Cancer, improving our knowledge of Blood Stem Cell Biology, and understanding Graft Versus Host Disease, with the goals of better prevention and improved therapy and outcomes should GVHD occur.