Robert L. Truitt, PhD

Titles
Investigator; Children's Research Institute; professor, Pediatrics (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), associate director, Basic Science Research Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin

Division
Hematology, Oncology and Transplant

Research interests
Cancer, infectious/immunological diseases

Study interests
Bone marrow transplantation, graft versus host disease, graft versus-leukemia reaction, immune tolerance, immunoregulation.

Education
Doctorate, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1973; post-doctoral fellowship, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., 1972-1974.

Honors
Scholar, Leukemia Society of America, 1978-1983; Board of Directors, American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2004-2007; Associate Editor, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

Representative publications

• Truitt RL, Johnson BD, Hanke C, Talib S, Hearst JE. Photochemical Treatment with S-59 Psoralen and Ultraviolet a Light to Control the Fate of Naive or Primed T Lymphocytes in Vivo after Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation. Journal Of Immunology. 1999; 163:5145-5156.
• Johnson BD, Becker EE, Labelle JL, Truitt RL. Role of Immunoregulatory Donor T Cells in Suppression of Graft-Versus-Host Disease Following Donor Leukocyte Infusion Therapy. Journal Of Immunology. 1999; 163:6479-6487.
• Labelle JL, Hanke CA, Blazar BR, Truitt RL. Negative Effect of CTLA-4 on Induction of T-Cell Immunity in Vivo to B7-1+, but not B7-2+. Murine Myelogenous Leukemia. 2002; I 99:2146-2153.
• Labelle JL, Truitt RL. Characterization of a Murine NKT Cell Tumor Previously Described as an Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. Leukemia And Lymphoma. 2002; 43:1637-1644.
• Johnson BD, Konkol MC, Truitt RL. CD25+ Immunoregulatory T Cells of Donor Origin Suppress Alloreactivity after BMT. Biology Of Blood And Marrow Transplantation. 2002; 8:525-535.
• Rosenblum MD, Olasz E, Woodliff JE, Johnson BD, Konkol MC, Gerber KA, Orentas RJ, Sandford G, Truitt RL. CD200 is a Novel P53-target Gene Involved in Apoptosis-associated Immune Tolerance. Blood. 2004 Apr. [Epub Nov. 26, 2003]

Grants

• Allospecific Immunoregulatory T-cells in Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients, National Institutes of Health/Nationl Heart Lung and Blood Institute, grant R21-HL69721, principal investigator.
• Medical College of Wisconsin Institutional Research Grant, American Cancer Society, principal investigator.

Contact
Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
Phone: (414) 456-4163
Fax: (414) 456-6543
E-mail: rtruitt@mcw.edu